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Every semester, Harvard’s Undergraduate Council politicos vie for the chairmanship of the Student Activities Committee, a lesser known, but influential position within the council that has proven to be a stepping stone to greater ambitions. Since 2001, five out of nine of UC presidents served as SAC chair before they ascended to the UC’s top spot, two served as UC vice-president, and one was a SAC vice-chair. Andrea R. Flores ’10 is the only UC President since 2001 who was not previously a member of SAC or vice president...
...time when readers desire fast-paced information and authors vie for 15 minutes of fame, those who pen novels often become names on book covers and photographs on book jackets. Rarely do we hear of unattributed works and anonymous publications in print.John Mullan’s “Anonymity” recalls a time when the majority of books were published anonymously. He reclaims these authors’ private lives from obscurity, awakening afresh their dreams of fame or their longing for privacy and their motives for anonymity that have been forgotten in the intervening centuries.Mullan begins his book...
...Girls, they introduced the American public to a particular brand of the Japanese fashion scene, though its representation was severely skewed. The style originated in Tokyo’s eponymous district and draws upon countless chronological and geographical influences, both aesthetically and commercially—European luxury brands regularly vie for the attention of Harajuku consumers alongside local designers. The potential origins of this uniquely Japanese amalgamation of cultural pressures are currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in “Showa Sophistication: Japan in the 1930s,” which is on display until November...
...numbers are telling. At the domestic box office, this no-star drama has already earned more than $34 million - about double the cumulative take of three Golden Globe winners from last year (La Vie en Rose, Julie Christie as an Alzheimer's sufferer in Away from Her and Cate Blanchett's Bob Dylan impression in I'm Not There). It has already made more than what 2008's film drama winner, Atonement, had cadged by this time last year. Remember that Juno came out of nowhere a year ago and revved up to a $143 million domestic gross. Not that...
...Houses were intended to recapture that lost community, providing hubs around which College life could organize—places to eat and socialize, build teams to vie for the Straus Cup, pursue scholarship with tutors, at lectures, and in libraries...