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This past weekend, the Winthrop House Art Studio opened its doors, giving Winthrop students the opportunity to muck around in acrylic paints to their hearts’ content. That Winthrop House has gone this far without such a space is a testament to the serious marginalization of the visual arts at Harvard. It’s time that Harvard acknowledge and address this increasingly apparent issue...
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...pair have engaged in a series of fiery debates on the topic, and their rivalry is a source of amusement for locals?most of whom are content to believe in the phenomenon's supernatural provenance. Next year, new combatants will enter the fray. Scientists from Bangkok's King Mongkut University of Technology Thonburi say they plan to settle the mystery once and for all. They have developed a submarine robot capable of probing the river's depths and reporting back to a land-based control center. But "some things are better left alone," warns Pang, the 70-year-old riverbank...
...Reviews have been mixed. Some critics found Kafka antifeminist and its sex scenes gratuitous. "Precisely because the writing is so good, its ... content worries me," the critic Yuzo Tsubouchi wrote in the Asahi Shimbun newspaper. However, Tetsuo Matsuda, who reviewed it for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's best-selling broadsheet, praised the book as a profound philosophical rumination on the turbulent times afflicting Japan. "In any heavy storm, there are always writers who hoist a torchlight in front of people," Matsuda raved. "Murakami has been, and will be, taking that role. Whatever happens in the world, I will watch...
...merely to be a “casual conversation,” that the editor felt threatened enough to resign speaks volumes. No matter how offensive the cartoon might have been, the Business School has absolutely no right to intimidate Will when it is upset with Harbus’ content; the paper is an independent entity with no financial ties to the school. For the HBS administration to threaten Will for actions he took in a role entirely separate from his position as a student sets a dangerous precedent for infringing upon students’ freedom of speech and freedom...