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...visiting Estonia - a nation in which he had first spent time 16 years ago, when it was part of the Soviet Union. Since establishing its independence, the country has been dramatically successful in building both its economy and a technologically sophisticated workforce. Gumbel was struck by how much Eastern Europe has to teach the West: "When the head of the biggest bank in the country is only 35," says Gumbel, "there's something quite fascinating going on." Berlin bureau chief Andrew Purvis looked at a different kind of line - that separating faith and the state - and found it blurring...
...treat. This review of an overseas exhibit does contain some of the smugness of the jet-setting art critics I previously scorned—but, with the caveat that all but one of the artists I tout have works that can be seen without leaving the eastern seaboard. Or even your computer for that matter. In “The Grande Promenade,” The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST) staged a sprawling exhibition of 44 international artists. The brilliant “open museum”—with indoor and outdoor sites throughout downtown...
...Foley, who represented Florida's 16th congressional district along what is known as the state's eastern Treasure Coast, wasn't exactly pristine in that regard himself. His camp charges that the e-mail leaks were part of a smear campaign by his congressional opponent, Democrat Tim Mahoney. But Mahoney, whose campaign denies that charge, had recently taken Foley to court for defamation over an attack ad that accused Mahoney of corrupt business practices that left scores of Florida workers unemployed...
Intimate and serene, Sharon Lockhart’s “Pine Flat” collection is a beautiful, yet ambiguous exploration of the lives of children in a small community in Eastern California. Culled from films and photographs made by Lockhart during her three-year part-time residency in Pine Flat, the exhibition currently resides at Harvard’s Sackler Museum. The films, like their titles—”Hunter,” “Harmonica,” “Kissing,” and “Guns in Rain?...
...totally fine with me taking a month off.” Students also view Ramadan as an opportunity to share their religion with others. “Every iftar is open to everybody in the community,” said Tellawi. Local South Asian and Middle Eastern restaurants cater the dinners hosted in Ticknor Lounge, with expenses covered by HIS. Dinners serve Halal meat and are free to students on the Harvard meal plan. In order for meat to be considered Halal, it must be prepared according to specific religious guidelines. The HIS also hosts interfaith iftars such...