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...give to all of the charities that are meaningful to them.”Communications barriers may also contribute to Harvard’s suffering participation rate, Rapier said.In their attempts to contact alumni, Harvard fundraisers now face e-mail spam filters, alumni who only have unlisted cell phone numbers, and overflowing e-mail inboxes. But participation began falling in 2001, the year that marked the start of the tenure of University President Lawrence H. Summers, whose January comments on women in science incited nationwide controversy.In an interview with the Boston Globe earlier this month, Rapier called alumni response...
...only the rules of dating were as simple today. If we only had to worry about ground phone lines and real answering machines. (Wait, what is an answering machine?) The advent of cell phones, however, has completely overhauled old-school dating etiquette, which has been further complicated by the rise of e-mail, texting, and facebook messaging. Not only must we recycle bulky pagers, but twentieth-century mating rituals are also begging for a make-over...
...work. Slamming his topology textbooks shut forever, Wolff went off to study music composition under Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus Leon Kirchner ’61. “It was the rigor of the musical training that attracted me [to composition],” Wolff says in a phone interview, citing Kirchner’s seminars as a highlight of his undergraduate career. But Wolff found the student-led recitals even more stimulating, and decided his true passion lay in performance. Wolff trekked to Paris immediately after graduation to study conducting with Charles Bruck. He returned...
...Beverly Hills Four Seasons conference room, the four stars of “The Ice Harvest” reveal their personas—before they’ve even uttered a word. Oliver Platt (“The West Wing”) makes the splashiest entrance, answering his cell phone (“It’s my agent”) and fussily heading to grab some water bottles from the courtesy table. Connie Nielsen (“Gladiator”), all business, makes a bee-line for her chair, though her presence hardly goes unnoticed by the score...
...Impasse de la Fidélité, just off the main restaurant drag of Rue Grétry, is a great place to start. Serving over 900 of the nation's finest brews, revered for their strength and diversity, and with a menu as thick as a phone book boasting these as well as more than 1,100 beers from 60 other countries, this cellar bar is a shrine to the brewer's art. In dimly lit, shrine-like surroundings, old enameled advertisements and colorful backlit beer posters adorn the walls, while wooden beer kegs double as tables...