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...Frank Gehry: Weisman Art Museum Like Frank Lloyd Wright, Gehry, 64, seems to become fresher and more creative as he ages. This year's masterwork is the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The smallish museum concentrates on 20th century American art, and the exterior can be seen as a tough, gleefully manic (that is, American) work of Cubist sculpture or as a giant brushed-stainless-steel popcorn kernel, or as a wizard's castle in some 23rd century fairy tale. Inside, where huge skylights bathe the galleries in sunlight, the feeling is serene...
...offense needed a score in sudden death to take home third place. Sophomore Chris Ludwick decided to take the matter into his own hands. On a six-on-five after freshman Danny Bilotti drew a kickout, Ludwick scored the game-winning goal, giving Harvard the win on his 20th birthday. Along with a 10-4 win over Fordham on Saturday, the team erased the memories of what could have been a bad season. The team’s shaky regular season had been resuscitated with a two-game win streak two weekends ago, giving the Crimson (8-11) an easier...
...over the 2.75 mile course, finishing 0.33 seconds behind defending national champion Yale (13:42.33). Penn (13:37.19) and Navy (13:41.24) were the top two finishers in the lightweight eight event. The Crimson junior varsity eight took 14th in a time of 14:21.24. The Radcliffe heavyweights placed 20th in the women’s eight event with a time of 16:26.30.Princeton took home first-place honors on its home course, rowing to a 14:53.42 split and besting second-place Virginia by almost 30 seconds. The Black and White lightweight varsity raced in the same event...
...Practicum”—an initiative of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Stabenow focused on the issue of suffrage, praising women who fought for political and social enfranchisement over the course of the 20th century. Listing such women as Alice Paul, Rosa Parks, Margaret Chase Smith, and Ann Richards, Stabenow called upon today’s generation to continue the advances made by women over the past century. “After we walk through the doors others have opened, we must ensure that...
...acting in self-interest make for fair and honest markets. Although Bernanke wrote an unpublished novel in his younger days, his reading list swings to the pragmatic. He spent a recent vacation with a book about astronomy and has read volumes about Milton Friedman, whom he regards as the 20th century's greatest economist for his arguments on the power of free markets...