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...together: common friendships and pride in our College. This is why the members of the Undergraduate Council - the official governing body of Harvard College students- want to recreate the spirit of camraderie.in a fun-filled week of celebration. Let these words resound across our campus: March 13th through March 17th shall be declared Spirit Week! To give Spirit Week a fun spin, we decided to give each day of the week a special sartorial flavor. Every day, students will dress up in different outfits to suit the day's topic. Below is the wardrobe schedule...
...TIME investigation tracked the alleged conspiracy through the labyrinthine structure of Lloyd's, which is not an insurance company like, say, Allstate, but a vast insurance exchange that evolved from Edward Lloyd's wharfside coffeehouse in the 17th century. As then, members bid for underwriting business, although today they do so from a four-story-high, block-square trading room in London. These underwriters form syndicates that are in turn backed by Names--investors who range from British notable Camilla Parker Bowles to U.S. business tycoons like Lufkin and Schwab, columnist Robert Novak, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and smaller...
Chevalier is especially adept at character studies: imperious burghers, butchers, biddies and crones. It's as if, after scrutinizing Vermeer's masterworks (and doing the required reading), she began to think and feel like a 17th century Delfter...
...definitive work on the painter, and it succeeds. First and foremost it is a narrative of the life and work of Rembrandt van Rijn, although calling it a "biography" somehow sounds reductive. It is equal parts analysis of Rembrandt's painting, documentation of his life and history of 17th century Holland, so sections of the book can be read with profit by anyone studying the artist, his art or the social history of the times...
Good thing for China that it doesn't depend on the consent of the Tibetans to rule Tibet. A 14-year-old boy recognized as the 17th Karmapa - a senior figure in Tibetan Buddhism - has fled to Dharmsala, the Dalai Lama's headquarters in India. It was reported Friday that the boy fled after the Chinese authorities, who had used their official relationship with the Karmapa as evidence of their tolerance of Tibetan Buddhism, broke promises to allow the boy access to his spiritual teacher in India. Beijing had officially recognized the boy, chosen by monks at the Karma Kagyu...