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...Time” is M. Ward’s sixth solo album and his first since 2006’s politically-tinged “Post-War.” From his debut in 1999, M. Ward has made a name for himself at the national level, bringing his distinctive fingerstyle guitar, lush musical arrangements, and reverb-drenched vocal melodies to a wide audience. In 2008, M. Ward gained even more national attention with “She & Him,” a well-received collaboration with actress and fledgling songwriter Zooey Deschanel. Deschanel returns as a guest vocalist...
Ancient history often seems like a balkanized realm of distinct cultures, each frozen in their own distinct moment. The Egyptians buried their godlike Pharaohs in pyramids, the Greeks debated democracy among Corinthian arcades, and rarely, at least in school textbooks, did the twain meet. But the historical reality, as recent archaeological researches have proven, is all the more complicated and fluid. An exhibition at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art shows with incredible detail how intertwined ancient peoples really were. (See 10 things to do in New York City...
...first Harvard structure built from what is now referred to as “Harvard brick,” used to ensure that the gate would resemble already extant eighteenth-century buildings in the Yard. The University requested that the gate, along with future buildings, only use a distinct type of hand-made and wood-burned red brick.The Guardhouse, also referred to as the “Gatelodge,” was constructed in 1983 and designed by Graham D. Gund. Gund graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design with two degrees, in 1968 and 1969, respectively...
...first Harvard structure built from what is now referred to as “Harvard brick,” used to ensure that the gate would resemble already extant eighteenth-century buildings in the Yard. The University requested that the gate, along with future buildings, only use a distinct type of hand-made and wood-burned red brick.The Guardhouse, also referred to as the “Gatelodge,” was constructed in 1983 and designed by Graham D. Gund. Gund graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design with two degrees, in 1968 and 1969, respectively...
...teetotaling undergrad. “I had a sense that he didn’t quite know what he was getting into.”One area of undergraduate life that Sunstein seemed not to struggle with was romance. According to McArdle, most Middlesex graduates entered college with a distinct uneasiness around the opposite sex, but Sunstein managed to overcome this with his natural charms. McArdle recalls that Sunstein was “in many ways...kind of a chick magnet because he had this very innocent look and was bright.”It was not until his third...