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...make time to get drunk. If you want to meet your girlfriend or boyfriend, you make time. And if you can’t find time to do it, you’re not serious,” said David Black, a well-known screenwriter, who started his week-long screenwriting seminar in Kirkland House on Monday night. It’s the same with writing, he said. Time and dedication are the name of the game. “You have to put in the hours to get control of your craft,” said Black...
...region and a storm bringing snow,” said Brian F. Farrell, the Burden professor of meteorology. That makes long-term forecasting particularly tricky. “You can’t predict more than a week or two at a time,” Farrell said. According to Farrell, the jet stream “wanders on week-long, or monthly time scales.” This mercurial pattern leads to stretches of unusual warmth as well as unseasonably cold spells in Boston, Farrell said. As Wofsy put it, Boston is particularly likely to experience...
...Winkle had dozed off in the 1950s, he might not have felt completely out of place waking up at the annual meeting of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), which wrapped up a week-long session on Tuesday. Here was Premier Wen Jiabao intoning the importance of "building a new socialist countryside." There were education officials unveiling a campaign to publish dozens of new Marxist university textbooks. NPC delegates, who had dutifully attended mandatory sessions to study speeches by Chairman Mao, even failed to pass a Western-style property rights law because, in part, Party leftists felt...
...crimes that are difficult to monitor. Dems’ Mass. Politics Week coordinator Erika C. Helgen ’08 said that it was fitting that Barrios, whom she called “a long-time friend of the Dems,” kick off the Dems’ week-long series on local and state politics. As part of the series, a debate between Democratic lieutenant governor candidates will take place today. Trips to the campaign headquarters of Tom Reilly and Deval Patrick ’78, the Democratic candidates for governor, are also planned, according to Helgen...
...should talk to about the Christian landscape on campus, he recommended about 20 people—not a single CSA member among them. “The largest opportunity [for cooperation] would be co-sponsorship of the Veritas Forum,” Brewer says, referring to the week-long symposium of Christianity-themed speakers, workshops, and entertainment. The CSA was invited to become one of the many co-sponsors of the event, Brewer says, but because the CSA bylaws require the group “to be involved in planning from the ground level up,” the leadership...