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...tend to use certain shapes and certain colors,” says Baird. “People who’ve seen a lot of my stuff can usually pick it out.” There is no shortage of opportunities for admirers to become familiar with her look. Baird is a member of the Harvard Vestis Council, does costuming for Harvard theater, and is a Harvard fashion show regular. But she usually has ample time and a heftier budget. For this dress, Baird needs to cut some corners—and she’s unlikely to have enough...
...Western governments, who have long seen Musharraf as an important ally in the war on terror, a familiar face at Pakistan's helm is preferable. But few Pakistanis have confidence that Musharraf - either as military leader or civilian President - can solve a problem that escalated under his watch. Bhutto, loathed by the religious parties for her liberal policies and equally abhorred by the military, doesn't offer much more hope, despite her campaign pledges. "Islamic militancy is spreading across Pakistan," says Cheema. "The militants are becoming more assertive even in settled areas, and the government is weak. It doesn...
...songs rarely strayed from studio versions (again, perhaps a nod to new fans in search of something fresh yet familiar), which actually wasn’t a negative. Berninger’s conversational singing style, an evocative baritone, suited the space well, as did his brief suspensions of composure, as when he casually threw his mic-stand backstage on the last song...
...eminent scientists, but Mario Capecchi is the one with the spiral-staircase story: the starving, homeless Italian street kid who found his way to America, to Harvard, to Utah, ever the refugee, before finally arriving at eternal glory and the Nobel Prize. It's in many ways a familiar tale, Oliver Twist meets Albert Einstein, the pilgrim who comes to the promised land expecting, as he says, "the roads to be paved in gold. What I found actually was just opportunity." But his story also has enough nice serrated edges to challenge our theories about genes and genius and what...
...that ensue, while “wabi-sabi” is the core philosophy of Japanese art that touts imperfect beauty. “It is hard to understand this philosophy without having worked with Japanese art,” Takeuchi said. Yet even for those who are not familiar with Japanese art, “wabi-sabi” seems a fitting description of Kouzo’s jagged-shaped porcelains. Having graduated from the Tajimi Municipal Ceramic Design Institute in Gift Prefecture in 2003, Takeuchi, now 30, was inspired by the Mayan ruins that he once studied...