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...This nugget of wisdom—and other lessons for aspiring naturalists—were on display at last night’s showing of a documentary about two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson. Wilson, who has been at Harvard for 56 years, is most famous for his work as an entomologist and his advocacy for the environment. The film featured reenactments of Wilson’s boyhood, including the incident with a pinfish that left him permanently blind in one eye. The accident left him unable to study larger creatures like birds, and pushed...
...Hall is the kind of canvas graffiti artists long for. Unsullied and several stories high, its white surface can be seen from some of the city's busiest roads. It has never been "tagged" - to use graffiti parlance - but that doesn't deter local artist MC Yan, who is famous for having left his work on, of all places, the Great Wall...
...panic. Centering on the life of a struggling composer, Jonathan Larson’s play “Tick, Tick…BOOM!” channels all these emotions in full force. The play will run Dec. 6-16 in the Adams Pool Theatre. Larson, who is most famous for writing the popular musical “RENT,” largely based this earlier work on his own experiences. “What makes this show amazing is the fact that this play is really a window into the mind of one of the 20th-century?...
...competitive in the global marketplace. It's just that these sorts of arid managerial charts, the lifeblood of Romney's previous career as a consultant, generally don't fit the crowd-energizing mood of the political stump speech. It's less the "Fired up! Ready to go!" chant made famous in the resurgent Obama campaign than the hushed whisper of an E.F. Hutton TV spot...
...lottery to dole out tickets to the thousands of eager students. A victory over Michigan would mean the arrival of Amaker, but also the establishment of the Crimson as legitimate Ivy League contender. Heck, just look at how much newsprint this paper devoted to the game!Much like the famous Appalachian State upset a few months ago, this game was much more important to the Wolverines’ opponent than it was to Michigan itself. Wanting it more, Harvard went out there and got the ‘W’ - and, at least for a moment, the attention...