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According to its curator Bruno Gaudichon, in the early '30s people in the mill city were determined to create "the most beautiful swimming pool in France." Architect Albert Baert produced a complex in which all classes mingled, including the factory hands whose homes lacked electricity and running water. They must have appreciated the individual bathtubs and shower cabins as well as the beauty salons, massage rooms and restaurant. Visitors entered through a Romanesque portico, changed in a cabin like a monk's cell and then plunged into a 50-m pool under a giant barrel vault terminated at either...
...cold hard truth is that giving honors to such a high percentage of students is the inherently evil and deleterious to any institution that engages in such practices. Indeed, if all science majors in a school were more talented than Albert Einstein, if all Humanities majors were brighter than Aristotle, if all Social scientists dwarfed Adam Smith, it would still be completely inappropriate to allow more than 25 percent or so to graduate with honors. Of course, to untangle the honors imbroglio Harvard could always just impose strict quotas on the numbers of seniors each year who can graduate with...
...Albert Einstein stood common sense on its head when he proclaimed time to be just another dimension, like height, width and depth, and went on to declare that it can be stretched and warped like taffy. But that notion is much too mundane for Julian Barbour. According to the 64-year-old British physicist, there's no point in trying to describe time, because it simply doesn't exist. "The passage of time," he says, "is simply an illusion created by our brains...
Neil R. Brown ’01, Albert H. Cho ’02, Stephen E. Sachs ’02, Andrew Park ’01-’02 and Robert R. Porter ’00-’02 were all named recipients of the prestigious award yesterday...
...Albert H. Cho described himself as “generally pretty boring,” a charge his friend, FM co-chair and international sex symbol Vicky C. Hallett, rebutted by pointing out that Albert was just in Qatar at a suspicious-sounding “conference.” He recited an poem about Vicky that he emptily claimed was made up on the spot, which climaxed, in all senses of the word, with him giving Vicky a hickey, which rhymes with Vicky. Other dinner guests refrained from saying anything about the display making them sicky...