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Although many of the pieces on display are from Harvard's own Islamic art collection, the Sackler's exhibit combines Harvard museum pieces with those of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and international private collections to offer a rare glimpse into 16th and 17th century views of the Ottoman Empire. At the time, the empire was centered in what is present-day Turkey and extended west to Vienna, including within its borders Western Iran, Iraq, Arabia, Egypt and Northern Africa; it was considered to be one of the most powerful and influential political forces during what was for Western...
Berkoff's victory, combined with his second place showing in the 200 backstroke, helped the Harvard men's swimming team finish in 17th place overall...
Other Harvard finishes included 13th place inthe 200 freestyle relay (Kaplan, Berkoff, Tull,freshman Kevin Williams) and 17th place in the 400freestyle relay. Paul Watson and Chris Kovacs swamboth backstroke events for the Crimson, but didnot qualify for the finals...
...Britain, is somewhat more compressible. Italian modernism can be summarized because its achievement was small next to the School of Paris', and smaller yet beside the glories of Italy's own past. From the emergence of Giotto in the 13th century to the death of Bernini in the 17th, Italian painters and sculptors ruled the European roost, setting the standards of achievement by which Western culture judged itself. By the 19th century this primacy was lost, and throughout the modernist era Italy produced no equivalents to Picasso, Matisse or Mondrian, and, of course, nothing even faintly comparable to Titian...
...heart of this enterprise will be the same spirit that infused those two creative dreamers on 17th Street. Our dedication to and respect for you the reader are as strong as ever...