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...long argument between the "natural" and the "man-made." It's important to remember that these are just two different ways of saying man-made, with the difference being that the would-be natural parks try hard to disguise how man-made they are. To put the argument in familiar and somewhat simplified historical terms, on one side are the supremely rational (and unashamedly artificial) boulevards of André Le Nôtre's design for the Gardens of Versailles, with their long Baroque vistas and knife-edge perpendiculars. On the other side are the parks and estates of Lancelot (Capability) Brown...
Altshuler, who became acting dean in 2004, said that he is “not familiar with any of the details surrounding the specific search” mentioned in Schwartz’s letter. “I have chosen to focus on the road ahead rather than a reexamination of that history,” said the dean, who announced in October that he will step down this year...
...happened to glance into a crowded elevator in the lobby of New York's Metropolitan Opera last month at the world premiere of The First Emperor. Before the doors closed I had just a second to register the familiar face and stocky figure of Henry Kissinger. Why should I be surprised? It was only natural that the men who, as President Nixon's Secretary of State, had opened relations between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China should be in attendance at Lincoln Center for the Met's first-ever opera by a Chinese composer-conductor...
...Several colleagues say that Faust wants to be Harvard’s 28th leader. And her wish may soon come true. Two individuals familiar with the search committee’s activities have told The Crimson that Faust is one of a handfull of front-runners for the presidency...
...Shavers and Hill were from very different backgrounds: he a native New Orleanian, she a North Carolina transplant who had lived in Nova Scotia. But their murders broke with the depressingly familiar trend of drug-related violence. And both victims were the type of involved, idealistic people that many feel are key to the city's recovery: Hill and Gailiunas, who has indicated that he will return to Canada, were part of the Food Not Bombs collective that provides meals to the poor, and Shavers successfully fought to establish a music program in one of New Orleans' notoriously underfunded public...