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...Intern Memo doesn’t plan on stemming its development. A recent addition to the Web site’s marketing strategy has been the use of campus reps—students at other schools hired by Intern Memo to spread the word and increase subscriptions. Maureen D. Barradas, a junior at Carleton College in Minnesota and a campus rep for Intern Memo, has been a fan of the site since she joined last June. “I believe in it so much that I decided to be a campus representative,” Barradas says...

Author: By Synne D. Chapman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Get The Memo | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...Mattison said he was disappointed with Harvard’s refusal to openly discuss its expansion plans with the community. “People have been asking Harvard for months about this rumor that they were going to buy the station, but their representatives have refused to say a word about it, and there’s no discussion with the community about where a good relocation for WBZ might be.” Mattison said. Harvard officials declined yesterday to comment. —Staff Writer Nan Ni can be reached at nni@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard May Buy, Build on WBZ Land | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...lone word “VOMIT” appeared on the screen as Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman described how audience members would involuntarily react to the stimulus, including raised hairs on the back of the neck, increased sweat gland activity, and heightened sensitivity to other unsettling words. Kahneman, who is a professor emeritus at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, specializes in the psychological underpinnings of economic decision-making. The exercise in priming was part of Kahneman’s talk on judgment and intuition yesterday in Yenching Auditorium. Despite being...

Author: By Wyatt P. Gleichauf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Laureate Explains Intuition | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...National Leader," or "Vozhd" in Russian, takes precedence over the constitutional head of state in the country's political tradition. Gryzlov pointedly used the English word "leader," rather than its Russian equivalent of Vozhd - because the Russian term is still closely associated with Stalin. The careful choice of words doesn't change the message, though. Indeed, some 70 years ago, urban legend has it that a little boy asked his father about Stalin. The father duly explained that Stalin was this country's Vozhd. "That's weird," the precocious progeny mused aloud. "I gathered from books that only primordial tribes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putin's New Role: Soviet Echoes | 4/15/2008 | See Source »

...thought his response in Indiana, in which he reemphasized the point he was making rather than apologize or "clarify" it, was sensible and refreshing," said Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Though the first wave of criticism focused on Obama's use of the word "bitter," over the weekend critics concentrated more on Obama's use of the word "cling" and the negative connotation it gave to people's attachments to guns and God. "I think you're on dangerous ground when you morph that into suggesting that people's cultural values, whether its religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Obama Pay for 'Bitter' Flap? | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

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