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According to Kirby, the changes are a necessary step to ensure that Harvard remains on the vanguard of educational quality...
...sculpture to video recordings of models dressed up as bathroom tiles. Walking the exhibition's three floors is like visiting a classroom of precocious children: each energetic piece insists on your attention. If they aren't as liberated as their Western counterparts, Chinese experimental artists are clearly in the vanguard...
...Film Festival, China is in the midst of a renaissance in filmmaking. In his opening remarks for the festival, Archive curator Bruce Jenkins drew a parallel in his opening remarks between the impending change in China’s political leadership and the shift in the leadership of the vanguard of modern Chinese film...
...have experienced a merger, you need to take a close look at what's being done with your money. In some cases, merging is a way for fund companies to make poor-performing funds disappear. It creates what Vanguard founder Jack Bogle, a critic of the practice, calls "survivorship bias": lousy funds are killed so that a fund company's average rate of return rises. Survivorship bias may not have been the goal but was certainly the result in July when Columbia Management Group's Galaxy II Utility fund, with a three-year return of 3.7%, was merged into...
...Vapir is to stand, sit or, perhaps, nap peacefully on the vanguard of smoking technology. The Vapir actually takes the smoke out of smoking by heating rather than burning the herb, which permits the user to enjoy what the Vapir heralds as the very “essence of plant.” With the use of infrared rays, convection currents and its own microprocessor, the Vapir is capable of heating herbs to temperatures up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, releasing the herb as a barely visible vapor mist rather than as smoke...