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...that structure that is really important to building community.” One hot-button issue is the way in which HESA funds are managed and allocated. This year, according to Hassold, the organization received $15,000 from the office of the Extension School dean. Sams said the group spent nearly 80 percent of its funds within the first three months of the school year. “It was a misstep in leadership,” he said. De La Rosa also said the HESA budget is “not a lot of money...
...night—Bishop Allen and a Harvard student band, The Sinister Turns. Mates of State is a Connecticut-based husband-wife duo whose music is marked by “quirky, rhythmic music and their male/female vocal harmony,” according to the press release. The group spent last summer touring with Spoon and Death Cab for Cutie. “I’ve been dropping the name for a couple days now, and either people haven’t heard of them or they’re extremely excited,” Goldenberg said...
...honorary membership, and they didn’t tell us any of the rest,” said guitarist Andy Ross, who told the audience that his interests include “kicking Harvard ass and taking names.” Drummer Dan Konopka said he and his cohorts spent the afternoon with the Poonsters in Connecticut playing a game called “whirlyball” in which two teams of players ride in bumper cars and throw a wiffleball into a goal using a plastic scoop. “We played about five rounds today. We thought...
...firm she founded in 2003. She had been approached by conventional publishers in the past, but as a small business, she didn't want to wait years to accommodate publishing's long lead times. "I thought, This is the book we've been wanting to do," she says. She spent two months pulling together the content to create Prefab Green--100 glossy pages of text, color photos and detailed floor plans--sent it off as an electronic file and had a stack of hardcovers to give to clients in less than two weeks...
...billion people cannot read or write. The temptation is to assign blame to the legacy of Western colonialism, but work such as that of Dartmouth economists James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote complicates the picture. Their research, examining 77 islands in the Atlantic, Pacific, and elsewhere, found that longer time spent as a colony translates into a better current standard-of-living and a lower infant mortality rate. Obviously, the abuses and depredations of colonialism were deplorable, but the overall influence of the West on the developing world is surely not the bete noire many would have us believe...