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...live in the midst of scientific developments as dramatic as those of any era since the 17th century. Our obligation to the future demands that we take our place at the forefront of those transformations. We must organize ourselves in ways that enable us fully to engage in such exploration, as we have begun to do by creating the Broad Institute, by founding cross school departments, by launching a School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. We must overcome barriers both within and beyond Harvard that could slow or constrain such work, and we must provide the resources and the facilities?...
...installation. Later in the evening, a concert helped ring in a new era of Harvard history. Standing amidst the towering columns of Memorial Church, Morrison brought the audience members—which included Faust, Corporation fellows, and other Harvard community members—back to the late 17th century. She took on the voice of a 16-year-old slave girl on a mission to find the only man who can save her dying mistress. Her voice remaining at a near whisper, Morrison touched on themes of race, gender, and human dignity throughout the reading. As in much...
...should be surprised that Roberts has turned out to be an uncompromising conservative on a court split 4 to 4 on ideology, with a fifth conservative, Justice Anthony Kennedy, deciding case after case according to his own self-dramatizing muse. When Roberts was picked to be the nation's 17th Chief Justice, he talked a great deal about the need for the fractious court to find more coherence and common ground, to wage fewer ideological spats on the pages of unnecessary separate opinions. Some wondered if this was an offer on his part to split the difference between the rival...
Turner didn't always deal in turmoil. His great hero was Claude Lorrain, the 17th century French landscape painter who invented formats like the idealized harbor, places flanked by classical piles, where a setting sun bears down gently on the horizon. In Caernarvon Castle, an early watercolor flushed with orange twilight, Turner took Lorrain's tranquil model and invested it with the nostalgia and high-minded melancholy of English Romanticism...
...heat and dust in Saturday’s New England Cross Country Championships held at Franklin Park in Boston. The standout performer for Harvard was senior Christopher Green, who finished sixth overall in the men’s race, leading the men’s squad to a 17th-place finish. In the women’s race, freshman Meghan Houser took 41st place, with the Crimson women finishing 17th as well. Both teams had to fight through the unusual October heat, with temperatures rising into the mid-80s during the early afternoon when the races were held. The intense...