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...appears at the same time as The Lives of the Muses (HarperCollins; 416 pages), a supple work of cultural history by novelist Francine Prose, whose subject is the women who have inspired creative men from Samuel Johnson to John Lennon. She tells us, "The lives of the muses greatly expand our limited notions of Eros," and she includes within those notions Carroll's not quite sexual, not quite chaste infatuations. Prose devotes a chapter to Alice Liddell, the little girl who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Carroll contrived the story to entertain her on a warm afternoon in 1862, then wrote...
...lost time. A visit to the new Seoul Museum of History, located downtown near the recently rebuilt Gyeonghuigung Palace, illustrates Seoul's new attitude. An in-depth (and bilingual) exhibition, "Seoul, 2002: A Vision of the City," details the new policies being implemented to both preserve and expand Seoul's natural gifts while protecting its historical heritage. What it adds up to is an ecological and cultural capital positioning itself to be more than just a place to do business...
Freshman seminars provide first-years with an invaluable opportunity. Currently, there are not enough seminars to meet the high demand—and one of the greatest steps the University could take to improve undergraduate education would be to continue to expand the seminar program to reach that demand...
...also hopes to expand the Crimson Cash option to include Board Plus...
Harvard recently offered tenure to a 37-year-old mathematical biologist—a move in line with calls by University President Lawrence H. Summers to tenure younger professors and expand interdisciplinary approaches to science...