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...find it necessary to publish a sexually suggestive photo on your cover? The article is about cancer, not under any circumstances a sexy topic. You trivialized a deadly health problem that affects men as well as women. BARBARA CRYSTAL Melrose, Mass...
Last week, University President Lawrence H. Summers created a bit of a stir by announcing the addition of an “interpretation” to the University-wide Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. The new language appended to the end of the 30-year-old policy made crystal clear what should already have been obvious to everybody: occupying a University building is against Harvard’s rules...
...They fade in and out, never really completely dropping off the radar. And the import of decisions today, decisions made by the bureaucratic cogs that run this venerable institution, will most likely never make anyone’s life easier or more enriching. At least not today. But the crystal ball is half-full, not half-empty. Mixing metaphors obfuscates the point but—to the rescue—the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals, gets right down to it. “Larry Summers is many things but he’s not stupid...
Lyons is an architect's textbook, where the oldest Roman theater in France (circa 1st century B.C.) is only a fossil's throw from a vast urban-renewal project that will include a science museum by Austrian architects Coop Himmelblau - a dissonantly angular 21st century "crystal cloud" intended to "float" 12 m above the ground...
...Kennedy’s book is to illuminate African-American history through the prism of the word “nigger” and to chart the word’s strange and troubling history. As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, a word “is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged,” but “the skin of a living thought [that] may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.” Kennedy’s book aims to study these circumstances by following...