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...European Commissioner Michel Barnier says Brussels is "worried whether France will play its part in getting Europe going again." The questions of discrimination and colonial legacies raised by the riots, along with the gathering political battle to succeed Chirac, have kept France introverted. In Germany, Merkel is trying to walk a narrow line between the need for economic reform and the maintenance of a fragile coalition with her own Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats - both of which are undergoing painful internal shakedowns. Hosting Chirac in Berlin last week, she aligned Germany with France in criticizing Britain's budget proposals...
...Harvard Square Defense Fund, a group of older Cambridge residents, had lobbied the CLC in its last meeting to rescind the restaurant’s license because they were worried about students roaming around late at night around the Square. Members of the fund had suggested that students walk to Central Square for food instead. As Harvard students, we all know that we can sometimes get a little rowdy late on Friday and Saturday nights. The fact that Felipe’s employees sometimes have to push students out of the door come closing time testifies to this fact...
...Professor Stilgoe reports that many Environmental Studies graduates are presently working in advertising, an industry in which a talent for artful manipulation is highly prized.Architects also benefit from an understanding of how environment shapes behavior. Professor Stilgoe uses shopping mall design as an example: “If you walk through a shopping mall concourse you’ll notice large groups of people stopping and gathering in spaces with raised ceilings. Designers understand that people tend to congregate in spaces with high ceilings, and they place them strategically to encourage shoppers to slow down...
...money, tents, clothes, and food” for the winter. Oh, but enough with the mushy stuff. Let’s get to the funny.We asked each comic to write us a joke beginning with the following line: “Two Harvard students walk into a bar…”The results were eye-opening, to say the least.Kevin Brennan:Two Harvard students walk into a bar, but they don’t stay long because none of the other people in the bar ever matriculated at Harvard. It might not be funny, but you know it?...
...screen, doing laundry and making breakfast. Later, the camera skims over a variety of inanimate objects in her life: a framed wedding picture, a Pilates pregnancy edition videocassette, a container of pregnancy nutrient supplements. The photographer follows her to work where she chats with a coworker, on a walk with her husband, in the car as she files her nails, and at the breakfast table.Nobody is quiet during the screening. Everybody is talking. There is laughter when the woman chatters with her husband about a teenager who was elected mayor. And students are always intermittently offering remarks...