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...Cabot House tutor will climb Mt. Everest this August to raise charity funds for a hospice for terminally ill children. “It’s about doing something I want to do and for a good cause,” said Myles G. Osborne, Ph.D. candidate in History and African Studies, who will be the only member of his expedition that is climbing for charity. Osbourne said he plans to donate the money to Naomi House, a hospice in southern United Kingdom. “I always had the climb in the back of my mind...
University President Lawrence H. Summers wasn’t the only Harvard official to climb aboard a jet and fly to a vacation destination the weekend before his resignation. While the soon-to-be outgoing president enjoyed a five-day ski trip in Utah, two members of the Harvard Corporation—the University’s top governing board—convened in Sarasota, Fla., for a secret rendezvous with the man they hoped would temporarily take the University’s helm: Derek C. Bok. Bok, a former president who led the University from 1971 to 1991, wrote...
...hour-long screensaver in surround sound. FM recommends the show for aficionados and the baked. If early-’70s concept-rock isn’t up your alley, the planetarium also hosts Laser U2 on Thursdays, Laser Beatles on Sundays, and Laser Led Zeppelin (“Climb the Stairway to Rock ’N Roll”) earlier on Fridays and Saturdays. Complete schedules of the museum’s luminescent offerings are available at www.mos.org. The museum and planetarium are opposite the Cambridgeside Galleria, a short walk down the Charles River from the Charles/MGH stop...
...visit the ivy-clad New Jewish Cemetery, 1 Israelska, where Franz Kafka rests. The beautifully sculpted tombstones in this 115-year-old graveyard function as a sort of outdoor gallery of 20th century artistic styles. For a great view of the hood (and a nosy peek at residents' backyards), climb the 216-m-high, Soviet rocket?like TV tower to its indoor viewing deck. Crawling up and down the tower's pillars are provocateur Czech artist David Cerny's large black babies - definitely more David Lynch than Merchant Ivory. 1 Mahlerovy sady...
...Center next weekend in the opening round of the playoff tourney.A day earlier, St. Lawrence’s 3-0 victory over Harvard was a first, snapping a 13-game unbeaten streak that the Crimson had held against the Saints. In both contests, slow starts left Harvard struggling to climb back into the games.“The first period is something we have struggled with all season,” captain Carrie Schroyer said. “It’s just a matter of mentally engaging a little more, which we do in response to goals...