Editor's Note

Dear Reader, We kick off this semester with MHJ's profile of Yi-An Huang '05, Cambridge's eleventh city manager. Huang's role is a complicated one. He's partially a bureaucrat and partially a politician, and many describe him as the most powerful person in Cambridge. Through extensive reporting and incisive prose, MHJ deftly portrays the way Huang has navigated his time in City Hall. Has Huang brought change to his historically contentious role — or have the many demands of the job ultimately changed him? Elsewhere in this issue, you'll find VWR's 15Q with Professor Annabel Kim and KJK's 15Q with Professor Curtis McMullen, HGL and JPL's look at consciousness studies with Professor Anne Harrington, and MSA's report on Bread and Puppet's latest Cambridge performance. KJK takes a tour of the city's internet-free cafés, and HPL attempts to attend every event pubbed to him, over mailing list, flyers, and word-of-mouth. In her latest Venn Diagram, MEL compares the new Harvard Foundation with the act of sharing one's location, and HPL unveils FM's first cyptic crossword. MRT closes us out with his reflection on losing and learning from the HUA election. FMLove, YAK+MTB