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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...contrast, fundraising levels across the University fell by 8 percent over the last year, a result Rogers attributed to the global economic crisis and described as “inevitably disappointing, but not surprising...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard To Seek Flexible Funding | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...contrast, as the army hammers rebel positions, many of the FARC deserters say they were desperate to get out. "Every day it's one or two deaths in combat or five or six deaths in a bombing," says a 21-year-old former rebel explosives expert who goes by the nom de guerre Visages. "Many rebels decide that they better get out before it happens to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Colombia's Leftist Guerrillas Are Defecting | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...pencils. In the fifth installment of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures this Monday, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk waxed troubled before a packed audience in Sanders Theatre. The American writer, he said, has the luxury of dabbling in regionalist vernacular (a hat tip to his beloved Faulkner); in contrast, the Turkish novelist is doomed to make a “museum” of his fiction, preserving his culture and displaying it to Europe by packing in as many observations as he can. Rather than being a thing of beauty, this edifice crumbles under the weight...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: The Occidental Tourist | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...kind of artist was he in color? The same kind as he was in black and white: a man attuned to nuance, rustling surfaces and gentle modulation, even when he was working in the most muscular natural settings. In the same way that he was turned off by harsh contrast in black-and-white pictures, he disliked strident color. What he was after were tones, colors you can't put a name to, indeterminate registers that shift in the retina and brain. Even his sunsets were powder-puff pink. (Read "The Old Master of Majesty Ansel Adams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ansel Adams: The Black-and-White Master, in Color | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

Cambridge’s spending per pupil is unusually high, but its standardized testing scores remain low—a contrast that has prompted many of the candidates to question whether the district has been utilizing its resources wisely...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe and Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: School Committee Elections Near | 10/27/2009 | See Source »

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