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...Harvard Square Improvement Project, which began this May, will transform many Square-area streets and hopes to improve pedestrian and bicycle traffic. And it is as pedestrians and cyclists that most Harvard students will benefit from these developments.There are more garages serving Harvard Square now than in the 1950s, but the problem was never really “solved.” A combination of factors—including the rising costs of car ownership, improved public transportation, and a student body drawn increasingly from all over the country and all over the world—combined to make Elder?...
...final plaque, the rain had stopped, the umbrellas were tucked away, and the pack of reporters noticed that across the broad field of half-standing brick barracks of Birkenau, a vivid rainbow had appeared. The editors of TIME, like those who A. M. Rosenthal worked for back in the 1950s, would surely not normally consider this news. But on a day that the German Pope came to Auschwitz to ponder God?s silence, that surprising explosion of colors seemed well worth reporting...
...Schmid observed, “I always felt that the Core curriculum was too rigid.”Historian Caroline Elkins, another new addition to the council, won a Pulitzer Prize this year for her book on British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya—a work that began to take shape while she was a graduate student at Harvard.Elkins, who is Foster associate professor of African studies, says she wanted to join the council because of the quality of its current members.“The faculty council is comprised of a diverse group of members of the Harvard...
...than types, even recording their songs and dance. "It's a tradition that's been rich and sustained over a long period of time," says Susan Hunt, curator of the 1999 show "Terre Napol?on: Australia Through French Eyes." "So this hasn't just come from nowhere." Indeed, during the 1950s, Paris-based artist Karel Kupka was the first to collect Arnhem Land barks as pieces of art, not anthropology; many of them will be displayed for the first time in MQB. "He was the first to recognize the individuality of each artist," says French-born Apolline Kohen, director of Maningrida...
...dreaming. All the characters are cars, but they're engagingly human. The lands they inhabit are richly detailed (thanks to years of research by Lasseter, co-director Joe Ranft and their team) and worlds apart: the NASCAR circuit, where autos and egos collide at 180 m.p.h., and a 1950s-ish town, keeping a sense of community far from the superhighway rat race...