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ClimateFest' event mixes science and politics with entertainment as experts lecture students

What do Irish step dancing, a capella singing and climate change have in common? Over 75 students who turned out to participate in last night's Environmental Consciousness Outreach (ECO)-sponsored "ClimateFest" event learned the answer to this question first-hand, as they watched performances from a variety of student groups interspersed with informational discussions about global warming and other hot-button environmental issues.








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Cage match | Royal showdown

This week, in honor of Disney's newest princess (Giselle from "Enchanted") we've brought together four of the classic princesses for a royal showdown: Snow White from - you guessed it - "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937), Jasmine from "Aladdin" (1992), Ariel from "The Little Mermaid" (1989) and Belle from "Beauty and the Beast" (1991).


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Top ten | Heist movies

There is always a good story behind a heist, which is probably why so many great movies focus on them. When people decide to actually go for it and steal things, whether SATs, diamonds, cars or, say, $300,000, there is usually a good story behind it.



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Corrections

Nov. 28's article, "Doyle outlines interplay between sports and IR in Cabot speech," says that the Fletcher School's International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program sponsored Daniel Doyle's speech on sports and international relations. Instead, the Charles Francis Adams Lecture Series sponsored the event, in coordination with Fletcher student Dmitri Goudkov, president of the International Bodybuilding Club."Degree Audit system revamped, further changes are on the way." The article appears in full on the Daily's Web site.



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Professor Adriana Zavala revalues lesser-known figures in Mexican art

The mention of "Mexican art" immediately brings to mind images of the infamous couple, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Conventional art history teaches from a distinctly Eurocentric perspective. Therefore, those with little knowledge of art are likely to have heard of Frida and art history majors wouldn't get much further recalling other Mexican artists. Mexican art, in this way, has been reduced to a few iconic images, a series of generalizations and basic premises lacking in the criticism and scholarship of European movements.


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A new political cowboy's in town: Scoop08.com

Criticism of mainstream news organizations is on the rise, especially among the young and educated crowd, according to a recent report from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. As a result, many Americans are turning from network TV and newspaper coverage to Internet sources: nearly a quarter of the group surveyed by Pew claimed the Internet served as their main news source.


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Michael Sherry | Political Animal

Last night, the Republican presidential field took questions from average Americans through CNN's YouTube.com Debate, where questions are posed through YouTube videos.