Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Friday morning, 9:15. A hazy quiet fills the streets: most of the college is either sound asleep in bed or half asleep in class. For the cast of Eleganza, though, there is no such respite—not now, not with one week to spare before one of Harvard’s biggest fashion events of the year. The last 16 years of creativity and commitment have made the show into a campus institution to be reckoned with...
Meanwhile, the models are losing focus, struggling through moves they clearly haven’t learned yet. El-Hage is not impressed. “The show’s one week away,” she scolds. “You should be able to do it on your own now; you’re freaking me out!” A moment of silence, then the other two execs diffuse the tension with a laugh: they know when to play good cop. Rehearsals resume, a bit more in earnest, and soon enough the kinks are ironed out. Later...
...they’re interrupted by Lil Wayne’s “I Get Crazy.” They break concentration and nod in time with the music, as if in enthusiastic agreement. It might be surprising that they’re so relaxed with only a week left. But, then again, a week is plenty of time for these girls...
...mirage of certainty has crept from economics into other disciplines is obvious enough: A famous Harvard government professor often complains that no data-heavy, model-driven graduate student gets a good job in political science these days. Perhaps more importantly, such flawed assumptions have grounded endless flights this week. Just yesterday, EU regulators acknowledged they should have conducted more actual tests rather than outright banning European flights for five days. The EU director general for transport, Matthias Ruete, admitted as much when referring to the models that had led to the ban: “[They are] a black...
...findings, published online last week in the American Journal of Public Health, showed that sexual minorities—gay men, lesbians, bisexuals—and heterosexuals who have had same-sex partners are at a greater risk for developing PTSD than the general population...