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...that in all its empty, raw beauty, wilderness is the ultimate luxury. Jumping from Alaska's uninhabited wilds to the overcivilized luxury-goods business may seem like a stretch, but these days even denizens of the latter are talking about sustainability and how they can become more environmentally conscious. This special supplement to TIME is dedicated to the idea of green living in all aspects of design, including architecture, beauty products, furniture and fashion...
...success in the near term, because success will change the nature of this debate,” Scadden says.“I’m sorry I’m giving you such late night too-much-wine drivel,” he adds, becoming jokingly self-conscious about his enthusiasm for the possibilities in Allston.But it’s not just Harvard’s ambitions that need to move quickly. In addition to contending with rapidly deteriorating facilities, the Charlesview Board must rush to utilize a law passed by Congress last year that provides vouchers to those...
...post-Sept. 11 poetry: the American natural anthem and bird calls played beneath and between his stanzas, as Ferlinghetti raised and lowered the volume by hand for emphasis. “What’s really amazing is that his work [from the 1950s] is still dynamic, resonant, and conscious today,” said Daniel Tobin, a member of the Poetry Club and chair of the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College. The pieces Ferlinghetti selected addressed themes ranging from T.S. Eliot’s romanticism to his own upbringing in Brooklyn to what he called...
...consequently never feel comfortable about being Christians here. That Harvard is no longer the Puritan institution it was more than 300 years ago is no travesty: the school is bound to become less Christian in aspiring to student diversity. But in its shift, the Harvard community must be conscious to preserve respect for the religion, especially given that it was within Harvard’s Christian culture that the religious pluralism we now enjoy was produced. Lucy M. Caldwell ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Wigglesworth Hall...
...illustrated list of who should go up against the wall. My Super Sweet 16 had its third-season premiere last week, building up to the broadcast with a drumroll of conspicuous consumption: four two-hour blocks of episodes drawn from the show's previous seasons. To witness such unself-conscious acquisitiveness in one sitting is like eating an entire normal-kid birthday-party sheet cake, wax decorative candles and all. There's the same queasy sense of monochromatic excess because all the shows are alike, from the fake panic that the party may not happen to the scary-sexy...