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...dean in what will likely be the single most important decision of her first years in office that fact should weigh heavily on her mind. All the lofty rhetoric about how Harvard was a college for its first two centuries or how the College is the most central unit to Harvard’s mission will ring hollow if Faust’s dean acts as only a dean of the Faculty and not as a dean of students as well...
...large, via the Web or phone or instant message, tiny snippets of personal information: what you're doing, what you're about to do, what you just did, what your cat just did and so on. Twitter does the Internet equivalent of splitting the atom. It creates a unit of content even smaller and more trivial than the individual blog entry. Expect the response to be suitably explosive...
Strumpf and Liebowitz also disagree over the reasons behind the recent decline in album sales. Unit sales have fallen 14 percent since 2002, according to Nielsen SoundScan...
...hunter rather than of the prey. Its use in military defense, according to "Camouflage," an exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum until November, evolved as a result of the advent of long-range precision weaponry. Only in 1915, when the French army established a specialist camouflage unit, did the study of concealment, distortion and deception techniques begin. But it was art, not military science, that led the way. "Armies realized they could put artists' knowledge of form, perspective and color to use," says James Taylor, historian at the Imperial War Museum. So the dislocations of Cubism (Jacques Villon...
...This year, Harvard’s defensive unit featured just one senior: its captain. Reese anchored the blue line with his consistent play, lining up against the opposing team’s top forwards and skating with both special teams...