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...attention to detail is fantastic: 14th century art can be seen by the reception desk; an outstanding collection of Chinese objets d'art imparts a sense of place to interiors that once looked almost entirely European; and the lustrous lobby dance floor has been restored. True to the Raffles spirit, each of the 171 rooms and suites coddles you in old-fashioned comfort. A butler swiftly delivers pillows of your choice on discovering that you had a sleepless night, and housekeepers deposit cards filled with engaging tales of the hotel's history on your bed. Superb contemporary French cuisine...
...These films are also giving new audiences access to the wider world of this maverick. The loudest soundtrack to Gittoes' current life is provided by the white cockatoos outside his coastal studio at Bundeena, in a national park just south of Sydney. Here his drawing desk-part of an old cabinet propped up on bricks-seems as improvised as his career. The son of an administrator and a ceramicist, Gittoes dropped out of law studies and, inspired by the visiting modernist art critic Clement Greenberg, traveled to New York in 1968. He studied with the social-realist painter Joe Delaney...
...knowledgeable students the opportunity for deeper study. Courses that do not meet the requirements to be a General Education course should not be deemed worthy of that high honor, but petitions should actually be considered instead of being relegated to a pile on a Committee member’s desk where she can practice using her red “Denied” rubber stamp. The past four months have been a period of intense discussion about what it means to be educated in today’s society, punctuated by skirmishes over the makeup of the distribution areas...
...changes to their lifestyles, while the uninformed women reaped no such benefits. “If you put your mind in an exercise place, your body will follow,” Langer said. Diana L. Steplyk, coaching assistant for the Harvard women’s volleyball team and front desk manager at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), said that having the proper mindset while working out can be helpful. “I think it’s true that if you have the right mindset when you’re working out rather than just going through the motions...
It’s a familiar story—cash is tight, cheap beer at Uno’s beckons, and that untouched wad of Hamiltons on your roommate’s desk is starting to look mighty appealing. Perhaps you should consider the pursuit of honest fast cash through the re-sale of your old textbooks for a better return. Or should you? Rumor has it that selling books to the Harvard Book Store is more lucrative than toting them over to The Coop, but FM wouldn’t suggest going there unless you want to haggle with...