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...students. To match participants, members of the Harvard Computer Society score each question based on personality traits. The results are then run through a secret computer algorithm. “We use a very complex and mysterious algorithm that no one really knows anything about,” HCS Vice President of Communications Hanzi Zhang ’12, said. Datamatch 2009 marks the service’s 16th continuous year of operation. This year, HCS has launched new features that allow users to change their answers until the deadline, and also updated the Web site for a more modern...
...used for Pepsi Max,” the trade paper Advertising Age noted late last year. Many industry journalists have noted a striking resemblance to the rising sun over red and white American plains on the formerly-ubiquitous “O” Obama logo. Though PepsiCo. Vice President of Marketing Frank Cooper has rejected such comparisons, his defense was nonetheless peppered with Obama-isms. Pepsi has historically been a “catalyst for change,” he stated, and the company believes that the world has reached a “critical moment again...
...Every time you find yourself thinking, “McCain might have done this in his younger days.” 7. Every time one of the sketchy Soviet terrorists sneaks a peek at a skirted woman climbing a ladder. 8. Every time a decision of Vice President Glenn Close is ignored because she’s a woman. We’ve come so far since 1997. 9. Every time we are supposed to understand that the president is cool because he likes sports. These include numerous references to his precious baseball glove. 10. Five shots when a mention...
...both feature sons with mental retardation that gives way to a type of clairvoyance. Phillips gives an explicit nod of acknowledgment to Faulkner and the inevitable parallels readers will draw between them. However, there is a key difference. While Faulkner’s characters are riddled with vice that brings them to ruin, Phillips’ characters are more hopeful. While this makes “Lark and Termite” a less distressing read, its grip upon the imagination is sure to fade in comparison to Faulkner’s classic.The narrators in “Lark and Termite?...
...courtship of Senator Olympia Snowe started in December with a phone call from Joe Biden. The Vice President-elect made sure Snowe had his home telephone number in Delaware so she would know how to reach him on weekends. In the weeks that followed, the two traded memos back and forth about how an economic stimulus package should work. "I had an infinite number of ideas, because they had been stored up," says Snowe, a Maine Republican who never got that kind of treatment when her party controlled the White House. "Now somebody was listening...