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...speedy reaction from a government that was criticized for not doing enough to curb the spread of SARS, which led to the resignation of the acting health chief, Yeoh Eng-kiong. "While we tragically suffered the 2003 SARS outbreak, it gave us a lot of valuable insight and practical experience in managing a large-scale outbreak," said Gabriel Matthew Leung, Undersecretary for Food and Health, at a news conference in Hong Kong on Monday afternoon. "It certainly prepared us very well for what may come...
...With funding from the Office for the Arts, the show was able to bring in people such as producer, director, and screenwriter Larry Cohen to help develop the show. Casting was done in February, and the show held a workshop in March, to provide audience insight into the show, a rare step for Harvard shows to take.All of the actors except for two are involved in a cappella, giving the show a very strong vocal background. But such a heavy focus on music and singing abilities is little surprise given that Sarkin is primarily a songwriter, and that the musical...
...hard enough to take the 80s seriously while they were happening—or so I understand.The film has its technical flaws, as well. Flat camera work, underdeveloped supporting characters, and trite dialogue take the film from merely uninspired to downright unpleasant. Still, the film has its moments of insight, most of them due to its surprisingly thoughtful score of 80s pop hits. Brad Renfro, who died early last year, also delivers an affectingly damaged final performance as the doorman who manages an ultimate act of defiance against the uncle who has menaced him his entire life.A sequel...
...Politics,” paints an all-too-simple picture of an academic discipline that is much more complicated. On the credit side of the ledger, Bolduc is right that some of the more technical developments in political science have come at the expense of accessibility and even insight. What is not true is that we have to choose between quantitative and non-quantitative approaches to politics. Bolduc’s essay establishes a false binary—“These professors ditched The Federalist Papers for Excel spreadsheets years ago.” In this crude thinking...
...course, many critical features of politics are distorted when they are quantified. Albert Einstein was apparently fond of a remark that “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” (There is a deeper mathematical insight here that underlies much of modern statistics and decision theory; for an introduction, see Patrick Billingsley, Convergence of Probability Measures.) And so hundreds of political science courses at Harvard and elsewhere continue to offer readings in political philosophy, American political development and political history, and legal and administrative decisions...