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...sacrificed some of its sons to their cause. Harvard was here during what could have been this nation’s death throes, helped restore America’s vitality, and saw its sons die on battlefields across the Union. Harvard was here during this nation’s finest hour, when freedom held tyranny in check, and mourned a shattering number of its sons...
...delicate shaping and carving of the instrument. Using teams of three or four people, each specialized in one step of the process, the Gliga factory can maximize its output while maintaining high quality. That teamwork is a variation on the accepted manufacturing theme: purists argue that the finest instruments are those made entirely by one master. Gliga says several people working together actually add to a violin's character: "The workers here are like one big family, so many souls working and feeling the wood--processing, carving, polishing, varnishing. I feel like a father to them, and the violin...
...fire tolerant, and that meant restoring it to its original structure. For guidance, he and his colleagues turned to old photographs and historic texts, all of which confirmed that prior to European settlement, the ponderosa pine forests of the Southwest looked very different, with "every foot...covered with the finest grass," wrote a traveler who passed through the area in the mid-1800s, "and unencumbered with brush wood...
...pasta before a match. "But I hope that when the novelty wears off everyone will see me just as a referee, not a female referee. That will be a measure of success." An Olympic Dry Run In Paris Take your marks. On Aug. 23, track and field's finest will gather in Paris for the biennial World Championships. For nine days, they will run, hurdle, jump, put, vault and throw for the gold, silver and bronze. Real competition, but to many athletes, it will be a very public practice session. "Everything leads to the Olympics," says Max Jones, the British...
...driving forces behind his decision to leave, a feeling of family is what kept him in Cambridge for 14 long years. “Harvard Athletics is more of a family than a department,” he said. “Harvard is Division I athletics at its finest...