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Come next fall, Massachusetts Hall will reopen its doors to its most deserving residents: first-year students. After the transfer of control of Mass. Hall from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to the University’s central administration in the summer of 2006, the University announced last spring that no members of the class of 2011 would be placed in Mass. Hall as freshmen. This discontinuation of a time-honored tradition for Harvard first-years was unfortunate for pragmatic and symbolic reasons, and the decision to invite freshmen back into Mass. Hall is one that reflects well...
...musical this year. I’m responsible for everything that happens on stage.RR: Tell me a little about the plot.MS: So “Castaways” is about this group of 11 people who get stranded on a desert island. This one character named Brandon starts taking control of everyone and sort of asserts himself as the leader of their society. Then a young girl named Cassandra objects to his position as a dictator and as a result he kicks her out of the society. Cassandra gets involved with a group of natives and begins falling in love...
...machine is produced by the small Seattle Coffee Equipment Company, which was bought by Starbucks in March. The company bills the machine on its Web site as able to “bring out the subtle nuances of all of your coffees through complete, independent control of all of the important brew parameters: grind size, dose, water temperature, and contact time.” There are a few hundred Clover machines throughout the U.S. and the world, mostly in small, high-end cafes, but there is only one other Clover in New England, according to the Clover Web site. Starbucks...
Argentina's capital city of Buenos Aires awoke under an acrid cloud as an ecological disaster of major proportions covered the city. Thick smoke from out-of-control grass fires raging in the large islands of the Parana River Delta some 30 minutes north of the city rolled over urban areas, resulting in the closing of airports, ports and bus terminals. Meanwhile, the authorities were forced to block highway motor traffic following a number of fatal acciddents on smoke-choked national roads. The air has been unbreathable; asthmatics were suffering, as were infants...
...fires, which have been raging out of control for two weeks now, have consumed some 80,000 hectares (300 square miles) of farmland on the giant river islands beyond the capital. Most local media reporting agree that the fires are caused by indiscriminate burning by cattle farmers who are opening up new land for grazing because existing farmland has been turned over to more profitable soy production. The area has a cattle population of some one million animals...