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...courtyard of the Fogg Art Museum was a bit more crowded than usual last night: 718 people gathered to bid it farewell. “Night At The Fogg”—an event hosted by the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of the Harvard University Art Museums (OUR HUAM)—celebrated the Fogg before its summer closing for renovations. The courtyard was filled with food, live music, and plenty of people. Student guides led tours every 10 minutes, and the Harvard Ballet Company and the Harvard Krokodiloes held performances. Yichen Feng ’10 said...
...more important, how to import the concept without hurting their traditions. A few weeks ago, in Khuruthang, a town in the verdant Punakha Valley, workers from the People's Democratic Party--the older (at just over a year) of Bhutan's two main parties--pitched a tent in the courtyard of the town's temple. Buddhism is central to life in this tiny Himalayan kingdom, and temple grounds are regularly used for town meetings. Just then, a local election official called with news: no political party could hold a meeting near a temple, since the brand-new draft constitution separates...
...ambitions. Indeed, McCain was so laudatory of Sarkozy's actions and role in improving the ties between the two nations that he predicted "our relationship with France will continue improving now no matter who becomes President of the United States." McCain's huddle with around 40 journalists in the courtyard of the Elysée Palace only avoided becoming a full-out love fest due to one reason: Sarkozy wasn't there...
...people who follow architecture, SHoP first came seriously into view in 2000, when the firm won a competition to build an outdoor summer hangout in the courtyard of P.S. 1, in Queens, N.Y., an arts-space affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art. It was at a moment when free-form, computer-assisted "blob" architecture was just breaking out of classrooms and professional journals. With a scheme called Dunescape, SHoP proved that blobs could be the basis for a structure both delightful and usable, stable but almost erotic in its waving surfaces. An undulating fabric of wood slats, it formed...
...Center. When officers arrived on the scene, the Cambridge Fire Department had determined that the brakes of the vehicle in question were smoking but not on fire. 3:10 p.m.—Officers were sent to investigate a report of individuals jumping on skateboards and bicycles in the courtyard of 677 Huntington Ave. Interviews were conducted and the individuals were issued trespass warnings for all Harvard property. March 6 10:21 a.m.—Police received a report of a suspicious package leaning on a gate at Shad Hall in Allston. Officers investigated the package and found...