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...century as director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Anne d'Harnoncourt became one of the most powerful and respected women in her field, driving a massive expansion-and-renovation project that helped turn the museum's collection of modern and contemporary art into one of the world's finest. Following in the footsteps of her father René d'Harnoncourt, noted director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, she presided over numerous widely praised exhibitions, including a large Paul Cézanne retrospective in 1996 and a showing of Salvador Dalí's later work...
...However, on no other issue at Harvard have I ever heard of the disinvitation of even one invited speaker, much less three. In 2002, Harvard’s Department of English invited Tom Paulin—Oxford professor and one of the finest living British poets—to speak, but promptly disinvited him after then-University President Lawrence H. Summers expressed disapproval of Paulin’s criticisms of Israel. Though the Department later voted to reverse the disinvitation, Paulin has never come to campus. In 2005, DePaul historian Norman G. Finkelstein, who has both sharply criticized Israeli military...
...great time that brought the team together.” The season is not over for the Radcliffe women, however. The team will travel back to the Cooper River next weekend to look for redemption not just against the familiar eastern contenders, but also the finest crews the entire nation has to offer.Next year the team will return all but two members of the first boat and will see its three freshmen recruits who rowed in the varsity eight return as sophomores.—Staff writer Elizabeth A. Joyce can be reached at eajoyce@fas.harvard.edu...
Since then, Manson conducted some of the finest orchestras in the world, including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, New York City Opera, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Stockholm’s Royal Opera, and the Hong Kong Philharmonic, among many others. In 1999, she became the music director of the Kansas City Symphony—one of only three women to have held such a position in a leading American symphony...
...life-changing trip to the U.S. almost 40 years ago. In his physical prime, Gibson, who died May 9 in Sydney after a long struggle with dementia, was a good player, rugged and brave. But that's not how he'll be remembered. He is recognized as the finest coach in the history of rugby league in Australia. Winner of five premierships between 1974 and 1983, he was last month named Coach of the Century by a panel of experts that chose a greatest-ever Australian team to mark rugby league's centenary year. Said Wayne Bennett, the closest thing...