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...China get do good at making chairs? To find the answer, travel 120 miles from Shanghai to a cluster of villages in the Yangtze delta. Eighteen hundred years ago, an Emperor fond of its forests named the area Anji, which means "peaceful auspiciousness." Until recently, its residents farmed bamboo and grew white tea. Then in 1982, as economic reforms took hold in China, a state-owned factory set up to supply lab stools to a nearby university made the country's first five-wheeled swivel chair. Soon local bamboo farmers pooled their savings to start factories themselves. By the late...
...municipal hooliganism that was typical for its time, the market stalls were torn down by the city and replaced by a parking lot. A few years ago, plans were moving ahead to replace the lot with an underground garage when workers excavating the site discovered a cluster of Roman ruins. This time a wiser city government made two important decisions. First, it chose to preserve the ruins within a below-ground museum. Second, it opted to hold an international competition for an overhead structure to connect the museum to the surface and to transform the plaza from a parking...
...to—the closest they have to come is the Moral Reasoning core requirement. And even there, courses like “If There Is No God, All Is Permitted” encourage students to accept the possibility of a world without spirituality.But in a small cluster of buildings just north of the Law School, Harvard quietly continues to prep men and women for the ministry. It’s no seminary, but the Master of Divinity (MDiv) program at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) offers a three-year professional degree that, in theory, prepares students...
Gross said that secondary fields will likely take the form of a cluster of five to six courses in a department outside a student’s primary concentration...
...them to crossfire more withering than the diatribes of Fox News pundits. A victory for the Second Amendment proponents was natural. When HRC member Matthew D. McCluskey ’07 asked “Who’s handled a firearm?” about half the HRC cluster raised their hands. “From a young age, Republicans have experience shooting squirrels and baby kittens,” Dems Vice President Matthew T. Bosch ’07 says. After almost endless Republican hegemony, the Democrats eventually found salvation in Rebecca P. Buckwalter...