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...happy to read your assertion that "Nobody takes culture more seriously than the French." That's right. Cultural creativity is alive and well in France - and in French. The architect of the most artistically significant building designed for New York today, Jean Nouvel, is French. Jonathan Littell, a 40-year-old American novelist, wrote his recent, prize-winning novel, Les Bienveillantes, in French. The French Culture Ministry spends $4.4 billion a year on the development and nourishment of culture, and I have never heard a word of complaint about the cost. Businesses and individuals are beginning to support the arts...
...rethinking aspects of the largest campus expansion in Harvard history. Faust’s comments came after The Boston Globe published a page-one story today titled “Harvard rethinks Allston.” The article stated that key parts of the Allston vision, including plans to build four undergraduate dorms and relocate the Graduate School of Education and the School of Public Health across the river, will be reviewed by Faust.“It’s not a reversal. It’s not a slowing down,” Faust told The Crimson...
...can’t build the sciences, we can’t build a whole new campus in Allston, we can’t create new areas of research, without graduate students,” Skocpol said...
...levitation to minimize friction and reduce inefficiency—the same principle that allows maglev trains to travel at very high speeds. The technology was debuted in a 2006 energy conference in Beijing, but is now being pushed in America as an alternative to expansive wind farms. The companies building magnetic levitation wind turbines claim they can operate in winds as slow as 3 mph and produce one gigawatt of power, with much greater efficiency than a typical horizontal-axis turbine. Best of all, Maglev Wind Turbine of Sierra Vista, AZ promises a one year return on investment.The prospect...
...However, the overall effect of the work was almost mythic. The waves of sound continued to build to the end of “Choral Fantasy” with the full grandeur of the choir’s pure harmonies, the strings’ furious tremolo, and Elkies’s intense scales and arpeggios. The evening as a whole was similarly fantastic...