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...think Harvard is a very verbal domain. We’ve got a long line of distinguished novelists, poets, playwrights, writers who come from Harvard; less distinguished, by far, is the line of painters or sculptors who come from Harvard. Something in the culture of the place encourages the verbal response to things over the visual. Now, museums are not here simply to respond to the interests of the History of Art and Architecture department. We are here to respond to and provoke the consideration of art as a distinct object. In the curriculum of the art history department...
Meanwhile, community representatives urged their neighbors to go to city meetings and push the city to take the Mahoney’s property with “eminent domain...
...claiming eminent domain, the city could seize the property—but would have to pay the University market value for it, which would be a major strain on a city facing a tight budget...
...Ameer emphasizes that despite its majority female undergraduate enrollment, the English department is by no means an exclusionary women’s domain. “We want to make it a comfortable and open environment for everyone, no matter what their sex,” she stresses. To this end the department recently instituted an overhaul of its entire departmental advising structure, with the hope of creating a more open and accessible environment for prospective concentrators. The department has instituted thrice-weekly e-mail updates, walk-in advising hours and special reading events. Ameer hopes these new initiatives will...
...Omar look like a Girl Scout. While he was prime minister of Afghanistan in a coalition government, Hekmatyar systematically shelled residential neighborhoods in Kabul. Dostum is well known in the region for torturing enemies, and journalists are already alleging that Dostum has been ethnically cleansing ethnic Pashtuns from his domain of Mazar-i-Sharif...