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Five years ago, curators at the British Museum began planning Sudan: Ancient Treasures - 320 objects, some of them 200,000 years old, on loan from the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum. But about three months ago the curators decided to put some more recent Sudanese artifacts on display as well: items from the western province of Darfur, where the Khartoum government and allied ethnic militias are blamed for killing 50,000 people and uprooting more than 1 million in the past 19 months. The Darfur objects - including a storage basket, toys and an ostrich-feather fan - testify to pastoral ways...
Some students commented on the randomness of the event. “The Lampoon has mastered a very particular brand of public display,” said Austin S. Guest ’03-’06, who viewed the event standing atop an orange traffic barrier. “They have got a lot of people interested in them not being interesting. They don’t care if you’re entertained. I admire that because I don’t have hundreds of people watching me on my porch and they...
...other words, the 2004 edition of Ryan Fitzpatrick could be even better. To ensure this, Murphy said a more pocket-oriented Fitzpatrick will be on display this season...
...that neither ConnectU nor thefacebook are new ideas. Poking aside, both are Friendster knockoffs made unique by their exclusivity and a few, college-centric features. (And Friendster itself was an imitation of other sites before it.) Though thefacebook and ConnectU boast improvements like multiple profiles and the ability to display class schedules to facilitate study group formation, the bottom line is that neither is very original. Zuckerberg had the know-how and put in the time to make thefacebook happen when it did. And nobody else can take credit for that...
...Harvard Film Archive (HFA) preserves and exhibits much of this heritage. It was also an important part of the liberation of Eastern Bloc cultural works and venue for their display. It is still a place where important films with little commercial potential but immense cultural importance are regularly screened. (We also screen plenty of highly commercial films in an effort to examine their appeal...