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...selection of which are on display in the Peabody Museum’s “Vanished Kingdoms: The Wulsin Photographs of Tibet, China, and Mongolia, 1921–1925,” are the soft, warm breaths of this dying breed.TIBETAN LANTERN SLIDESWhile analog photography may be a drag, the complications of the process give “Vanished Kingdoms” its distinctive quality.The Wulsins, after their trek through inner Asia, outsourced many of their monochrome negatives to a workshop in Beijing. There, workers transferred the negatives to so-called “lantern slides” before...
Malik shone in drag as Dagmar, a stock “witch next door” character who brews a bubbling cauldron and cackles frequently. As Malik sang about his character’s “notion for a potion,” three giggling spirits floated around him, playing up the classic witch’s den scene repeatedly and effectively...
Under its current alcohol policy, Harvard College makes this choice relatively easy on its students. If your friend passes out at a party—one thrown by you, or your student group, or your final club—you can drag him over to UHS with no fear of repercussions. Harvard’s amnesty policy ensures that neither you nor your drunken friend will be punished for seeking medical attention. This policy is designed with one thing and one thing only in mind: student safety...
...Anping district, a cheek-by-jowl crowd converges on weekends to inhale the aroma of xiao chi, or street snacks: fermented tofu, fried wontons, grilled mushrooms and "coffin cakes," the local version of pot pies. It's all good, but the people watching is better. Off the main drag, an elderly man squats beside his own low-tech incarnation of an ice cream truck-a weather-beaten bicycle with a jury-rigged cooler lashed to the back. He rings a bell and awaits his next customer. But he looks in no hurry; in time, they will come...
...roadblocks that have stood in the way of this change in the past—most notably an ongoing curricular review which is finally coming to a conclusion—are being lifted. There is no longer any reason for delay. Harvard is one of a few universities that drag students back to campus after a brief winter break to write term papers and take exams. It’s a cruel system that denies Harvard students a full or relaxing winter break and makes Cantabs the butt of many jokes from their friends who are returning home for real...