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...young people have lined up on either side of the Eighth Street Playhouse box office. Their behavior is genial and gentle, with no rock-concert jostling; there might be an invisible Sister Mary Ignatius patrolling the sidewalk. One couple chats in Portuguese; a trio converses in Czech. It's a U.N. in miniature--so much so that when a derelict wanders by, desperate to strike up a monologue, he asks a gaggle of teens, "Excuse me, do you speak American?" This guy is a rap artist without synthesizer, improvising an autobiography as he addresses the girls, and they pretend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Land: The Voice of Rocky Horror | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of the French national library, has since inspired 19 libraries to join the cause. The national libraries in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden all signed and released an official oppositional statement soon after Google unveiled the project in December...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Google, Harvard Collaborate To Scan Library Books | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...trotting students have in the past relied heavily on other schools’ study abroad programs—Harvard only offered two choices in 2003—Harvard has increased the number of Summer School programs it is offering this summer to 10 programs, including ones in Beijing, the Czech Republic, Oxford, and Barcelona, up from seven last year...

Author: By Tina Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Harvard Rigor Overseas | 5/27/2005 | See Source »

Prior to his brief stint at UVM, Gates worked at NYU, while earning his master’s, for nearly a decade in a wide range of administrative posts. As executive director of Global Operations, Gates coordinated NYU’s campuses in the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Italy, and Argentina...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Appoints New Dean of Finance | 5/23/2005 | See Source »

...your sense of wonder Paris was the stomping ground of Cubist creators Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, so it must be the city in which the angular arts style reached its full potential, right? Not so, says Zdenek Lukes of the National Heritage Department at the Office of the Czech President. "Paris is where Cubism was born," he says, "but Prague is where it spilled over into architecture and design, something that didn't happen elsewhere." As a result, Prague is today known not only for paintings by Emil Filla or sculpture by Otto Gutfreund, both Czech Cubist artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Square Meal | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

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