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...Philip Glass. In the decade since, these studies have sparked an academic storm, with many of Rauscher's peers either refining or debunking her findings. Other researchers have had mixed success in replicating her results. But her work received widespread media attention and gave rise to a pop-psychology trend known as the "Mozart effect." Dozens of Mozart compilation CDs that promise to enhance intelligence are now on the market, with titles such as Mozart for Mommies and Daddies - Jumpstart Your Newborn's IQ. The claims have had social-policy repercussions: in 1998, the U.S. state of Georgia began handing...
Early this December, during the fast-paced, anything goes UC election season, Harvard finally got a taste of something mainstream media aficionados have been watching carefully for the past few years: political weblogs. Of course, blogs aren’t a particularly new trend. The 2004 presidential election saw them widely recognized as an important force by the media, particularly in the ultimately failed Howard Dean campaign. And even at Harvard there were a few campus political blogs already in place before December—former Crimson columnist Andrew Golis and a few of his friends have maintained the excellent...
Hats off to The Crimson for identifying a very important (and often-neglected) trend in both the private and public sectors today: the convergence of business and public leadership (“HBS Attracts Washington-Bound,” news, Dec. 20). This convergence is critical because many of the most complex and pressing public policy problems and opportunities fall at the intersection of these sectors, and their solution will require cross-sector convergence...
...Lorraine to Lawson in Mason Temple verified that the crowd indeed was thin--perhaps fewer than 2,000 in the huge hall that had packed seven times that many for King's visit on March 18. He feared the sharp drop-off would invite belittling stories of a downward trend for him, along with the riot and new federal injunction. "Ralph," said King, "I want you to go speak for me tonight...
...private company. The state generated some $30 billion in debt to do just that. Or take the case of RAO UES (the electricity monopoly) buying a sizable part of the Power Machines Plant. When the state unraveled Yukos, officials insisted it was a single such case rather than a trend. But it soon became obvious that Yukos was not a single case, that this concerns the entire economy. Just this month, officials of the state-owned Rosoboronexport (the weapons trade monopoly) has taken over the privatized AVTOVAZ (a major automotive plant).These and other such cases show that Yukos...