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Etruscan, Greek, Chinese, and Islamic vases find a place among the vast collection of the Harvard Art Museum alongside the work of European masters like Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Picasso. Only a few blocks away, Pueblo ceramics from the American Southwest and pottery from the Moche civilization in Peru reside in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. While the few blocks that separate the museums are rather small, the assumptions motivating the division between art objects and ethnographic objects are significant. Recently, though, steps have been taken both on and off campus to complicate the division between fine...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Artifacts Take Their Rightful Place as Art | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Sugarman’s HHRA campaign primarily focuses on the unjust retention of political prisoners by the Burmese military government, which has held power for 19 years. Among those prisoners is Nobel Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi, who was elected Prime Minister of Burma in 1990 but was never allowed to take office. One difficulty Sugarman’s group faces is that activism in the U.S. can yield few concrete results, as the U.S. has very little sway in Burma. However, the HHRA still believes strongly in remaining informed of the country’s political strife...

Author: By Sally K. Scopa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Public Art Highlights Human Rights Struggles | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Objections to third-party candidacies that rest on their tendency to “steal votes” seem to invoke a cynical and underdeveloped view of democratic choice. Democracy is founded on the principle that citizens should choose governments for themselves from among the assorted options; with more options available for selection, therefore, citizens would have greater freedom and flexibility in choosing the leader they most desire. Instead of being restricted to one or two broadly comparable administrations, they would have the liberty to choose from an additional candidate who may be better suited to address their concerns...

Author: By Peter M. Bozzo | Title: In Defense of the Little Guy | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...other hand, the Economics Department will draw four visiting faculty for the coming academic year, which will enable it to restart its popular junior seminar program. But, according to Economics Department Chair John Y. Campbell, two of the visitors will fill endowed positions that rotate annually among departments...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Post Docs Compensate For Fewer Visiting Profs | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...think that there is broad recognition in the country, particularly, among high school students, about the importance of having a strong background in science and technology to do anything in the future,” Schmill says...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar and Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard Attracts More Potential Engineers | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

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