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...American Grace” begins on shaky ground, but quickly gathers momentum. Although the first pieces tend to emphasize technical precision to the detriment of the emotional and artistic aspects of the performance, these issues are soon resolved as the show proceeds into more modern and accessible territory...
...overwhelmingly favoring the Democratic Party right now.”Mark A. Shepard ’08, vice president of the Harvard Republican Club, also warned against evaluating Election Pulse’s data at face value because of its self-selecting characteristics.“The people who tend to be Democratic are liberal, northeastern elites, and that pretty much describes the group of people on Facebook,” he said...
...society would require two courses. First, students should take a course that teaches the crafting of rigorous hypotheses. This could be a class on evolutionary theory and human nature, psychology, political theory, or even economics. The key requirement should be a focus on rigorous theory about mankind. I tend to think rigor improves with mathematics, but I am perfectly willing to accept that there are verbal substitutes...
Thus local firms are eagerly teaming up with the foreign giants, which contribute their names and expertise, and also ensure that the hotels are designed to their usual standards. The foreign firms earn steady management fees for running the hotels, while the Chinese partners tend to put up the cash for construction...
...applicants to selective schools seek help beyond their high school counselors.Despite the increasing number of students who use these companies, their effectiveness is unclear. Sharon Merrow Cuseo, an upper school dean at Harvard-Westlake School, has been counseling for over thirteen years. She believes that students and parents tend to think that their consulting service was the crucial component in a successful application and that they then go on to relate this opinion to others. “It’s kind of faulty logic because who knows—they probably would have gotten in anyway...