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...crisscrossing paths in Harvard Yard hardly serve as mock runways for College students, who tend to be more concerned with problem sets and theses than the latest collections from Paris and Milan. Timothy M. Parent ’09 hopes to change this through Project East, a fashion show featuring Asian and Asian-American designers now in its second year. Recognizing a gap in his college experience, Parent took the initiative to bring high fashion to Harvard, satisfying his own interests while also providing valuable opportunities for Asian designers and his fellow students. Parent has always had a love...
...problem, of course, is that the Big One never comes. California has more than 300 faults running beneath its surface, including the massive San Andreas Fault, yet the quake to end all quakes has yet to occur. In 1980, a federal report declared the likelihood of a major earthquake striking California within the next 30 years to be "well in excess of 50%." Seismologists predicted a 1993 earthquake in the community of Parkfield - which lies along the San Andreas Fault - but the quake did not come until 2004. Earthquake prediction is a tricky practice, and one that, for all their...
...that's in the future. If Obama begins restoring order to the economy, Democrats will reap the rewards for a long time. Forty years ago, liberalism looked like the problem in a nation spinning out of control. Today a new version of it may be the solution. It's a very different day in Grant Park...
...problem with trying to taint Obama with the label of "Chicago politics" is that most Americans no longer make the association with corruption. "We're not looked at the same way we might have been years ago," says Dick Simpson, a former Chicago alderman and chair of the political science department at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "We're not Al Capone's city. We're not the stockyards of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle." These days Chicago is known for blending working-class kitsch - Da Bears and the Cubbies - with cosmopolitan shopping and restaurants on Michigan Avenue...
...strongly believes" that high-level government leaders, including President Nkurunziza and General Adolphe Nshimirimana, head of the country's intelligence service, pressured lower-ranking officials not to release Sinduhije. According to Ngoga-Gateretse, who is based in Maryland, Burundian authorities are holding Sinduhije in spite of international pressure. "The problem is," Ngoga-Gateretse writes in an e-mail, "Nkurunziza does not understand the consequences...