Word: winterizing
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...says that the College’s current academic calendar, which requires fall-term final exams to be held after two weeks of winter break, is detrimental to students’ mental wellbeing...
...Julius Caesar” is a play that is often as much about the time it is staged as the period it depicts. Despite the assertion of co-directors Robert D. Salas ’08 and Winter Mead ’08 that the play’s language was the focus of the production, the version produced by Kimberly E. Gittleson ’08, who is also a Crimson magazine editor, made several gestures toward the present. But the modern elements of the show never coalesced into clear ideas, resulting in a well done but ultimately uninspiring...
...Since his first smash, the 2003 Elf (still his highest grosser), he has kept busy and lucky: building a succession of hits, dabbling in the higher-IQ type of comedy (Stranger Than Fiction), cameoing in his friends' films, occasionally lending his luster to indies nobody sees. One of these, Winter Passing, grossed all of $101,228. But that's just pro bono work; these small flops don't taint him. The films Ferrell has starred in have grossed $876,885,086 at the North American box office. It'd be a stretch, but Blades of Glory could bring...
While Apple's iPhone launch was absorbing all the available buzz this winter, two dueling teams of technologists were feverishly finalizing gadgets they hope will refocus the spotlight. The FlipStart, dreamed up and funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, launches in April. Its creators call it the first fully powered ultra-mini PC, or UMPC, that is satisfying to use. Meanwhile a team led by ex--Apple star Jory Bell has countered with the OQO2--a palm-size computer that stakes a similar claim with a slightly different approach. These aren't the only machines to claim UMPC status...
...Dismissing a scientist's temperature chart is one thing. Dismissing the death of a major American city is something else entirely. What's more, the heat is only continuing to rise. This past year was the hottest on record in the U.S. The deceptively normal average temperature this winter masked record-breaking highs in December and record-breaking lows in February. That's the sign not of a planet keeping an even strain but of one thrashing through the alternating chills and night sweats of a serious illness...