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...undergraduate education entails choosing a particular set of values, skills, and understandings that college graduates ought to share, it will necessarily exclude any student who, due to race, sexual orientation, or personal taste, disagrees with that mission. It’s this exclusivity that has torn at the cloth of our community, giving the Harvard man enough wiggle room to propagate his hateful, antique notions of “responsibility” and “citizenship...
...Berensohn’s morning session consisted of a “Pebble Ritual,” during which each participant was given a handful of clay and asked to make twelve pebbles, harkening back to man’s first playthings. Subsequently laid out against a blue cloth, they created a clay cosmos, around which the group performed a Greek circle-dance. Drawing upon scientific theories of both the Big Bang and the Gaia Hypothesis, Berensohn emphasized the idea that art precedes science in his impromptu dissertations on topics like the Bible, our existence as “terraqueous...
...thought that as the first woman president of Harvard, I should be the first person to be inaugurated in a skirt.” And the huge black robe? “I don’t know whether it’s actually the same cloth that Larry wore, but it’s meant to emulate the garb of a Puritan minister... It’s completely unlike any other University president’s.” Those Puritans were always known for their keen fashion sense...
...play opens on a traditionally domestic scene in early twentieth-century Eastern Europe. Schulz daubs a gauzy beige cloth with paint, engrossed in his artwork...
...step inside Nyamata church and my guide, Josh Ruxin, points out the wall where babies were smashed up against the brick. "You can still see the blood," he says. More blood, wide dry brown stains, covers the altar cloth. Against a side wall, I find two new-looking closed coffins covered in cloth, a stack of 20 more, empty and expectant, and an open sack scattered with ribs, femurs and broken skulls. "Oh yeah," says Ruxin, looking over. "Thirteen years later, they're still finding new bodies round here every day." We walk around to the front of the church...