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They have no motto to match the dignity of "New York's finest," or the Los Angeles police's promise "to protect and to serve." But since the 1940s, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has sought to combine the duties of law-enforcement with the protection of a college community's interests...
...TIMUR AND THE PRINCELY VISION: PERSIAN ART AND CULTURE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. The reigns of the legendary warlord Timur (known as Tamerlane in the West) and his successors produced some of Islam's finest paintings, ceramics, carvings and other works, all richly sampled here. Through July...
Today, Harvard has one of the finest facilities in the Ivy League--Briggs Athletic Center, which opened...
...iron chancellor of the Berlin Philharmonic abruptly ended his distinguished 34-year tenure as conductor-for- life. With a curt, 17-line note to West Berlin's new culture minister Anke Martiny, the Salzburg-born Karajan, 81, severed his often troubled relationship with an orchestra widely regarded as the finest in the world. The reason given was ill health, but to an even greater extent Karajan was bowing to pressure from both his restive orchestra and the West Berlin senate...
...Corvette ZR1 in September, and the automotive trade press is already gushing about the car with the sort of enthusiasm it usually reserves for $150,000 European exotics. "We have finally driven the ZR1 Corvette," raves Automobile magazine. "And without equivocation we can pronounce it the fastest and finest high- performance automobile America has ever produced...