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...tell me that people have come by when I’m not here and have asked to see the bed. It’s a bit of a tourist attraction, but it gets the job done,” Matchett says. But the bed is not the only feat of construction to grace Leverett B-34. The roommates decided to partition the common room to form a fourth bedroom. But again, this is no common partition; it is not attached in any way to the ceiling, floor or walls. “We cut the vertical pieces of wood...
Finally, Summers was invited to sit in the historic Harvard president’s chair—an uncomfortable feat, he later implied, although he grinned as he took his seat in the Holyoke chair...
...bold black curves, each crowned with an unassuming hexagon, cut large swaths across the page (not, mind you, the canvass), and converge on a fourth prosaic stroke. It is almost entirely visually uninteresting and the negative space accounts for the vast majority of the framed image. It represents a feat of the intellect, not one of the imagination-it is, again, a scholastic exercise and has little to do with beauty and visual representation. It is perhaps the least apt model for budding visual artists to follow, since it imposes on them a theoretical framework without encouraging the development...
Harvard’s consistent and quality play has finally been noticed nationally. This is the first week that Harvard has been listed in the top-25 national rankings. Harvard jumped from un-ranked to number 11, a considerable feat...
...Canada and Russia are mulling a plan to build a railroad tunnel beneath the Bering Strait. A rail link, they say, could carry 30 billion tons of cargo a year and cut shipping time from Los Angeles to Vladivostok as much as two weeks. It's an attainable feat: the strait is only 60 miles wide at its narrowest point (twice as wide as the English Channel Tunnel, which took seven years and $15 billion to construct). But to make the Bering tunnel accessible on the North American side, connecting lines would have to be laid from the strait...