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...story begins in the late 19th century, when the scattered archipelago was a Spanish colony, its people stifled by ruling élites but also desperate to earn their approval. The assiduousness with which they sought it can be seen in two iconic works by Filipino artists Juan Luna and Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, who together swept the top prizes at a prestigious Madrid art exposition in 1884. Neither painting bears any trace of indigenous technique; instead they demonstrate the skill with which the Filipinos absorbed the traditions of post-Renaissance Europe and, albeit timidly, began to subvert...
...part of their campaign to lead the Undergraduate Council, President Johnny F. Bowman ’11 and Vice President Eric N. Hysen ’11 proposed the development of a Web site akin to Craigslist for Harvard students. Hysen said that the pair had originally considered building their own site, but after learning about Konda and Hsieh’s creation, the UC leaders decided they did not want to “mis-replicate something that was already being done well...
...past, Harvard has accepted as many as 75 transfer students in a year. The Crimson reported in 2008 that such notable alumni as John F. Kennedy ’40, Henry A. Kissinger ’50, and W.E.B. DuBois, Class of 1890, came to Harvard as transfer students...
...irrigation teams operate on little sleep, catching a few hours in the dead of frozen night when nothing more can be done. The company's 80-plus irrigation pumps, with miles of hoses, deliver water through micro-jets from the time the temperature hits 32°F (0°C) until it returns to above freezing in the morning. By 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 10, there was nothing left but hope and luck, and tall, soft-spoken Kyle headed home for a few hours of shut-eye - sleep disturbed by the knowledge that the family had already incurred...
...family could remember a cold spell this protracted, not even since the freezes of the 1980s wrought more than a billion dollars in citrus losses. At 5:45 a.m. on Jan. 11, when the temperature read 25°F (-4°C), Kyle yanked an early-season orange from a tree. He sliced the top third and the juice ran freely, making him think they may have squeaked through another night. But with a second cut through the middle, Kyle shook his head. "This is not good," he said, running his knife through slush, as it's called...