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...that you’re learning is just what Western WASP culture has decided is right. If you were coming from somewhere else, or were the opposite sex, then those basic laws of physics, math and life might be completely different, as many scholars, including Stanley Fish and the late Thomas Kuhn, argue. In his new book, Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversaries, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and former Harvard professor Steven Weinberg takes on these critics, if not skillfully, at least thoroughly...
...name of a freshwater perch, characterized by a large and ugly head and spiny fins. The Cabot House shield is derived from the Cabot family seal, which is a pun on the name Cabot. The original seal, which is displayed in the Cabot House kitchen, depicts three fish, draped curtains, and a helmet on a yellow background. There is no evidence, however, that the Cabots had been involved in fishing or seafaring...
...despite the vision of New York, I still understand this war mostly through the fish-eye lens of my television...
...misleading titles go, “Theatrical Photographs,” by Alix Jeffry, at the Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery has succeeded in a misnomer. Many of the photographs, while delightful, have naught to do with the theatre; Jeffry’s real name was Evelyn Fish and the Lammot du Pont Copeland Gallery is little more than the entrance to Pusey Library. That said, it is worth the trip to Harvard’s underground library to see these 70-odd black and white portraits on display...
...current trend lays down the simplest way to balance honorable professional ambition with frivolous college love: pursue the former and simply concede the latter. For there will be many fish in the sea, but only one chance at Harvard Law School. And there will be myriad chances to fall in love, but only one opportunity to break into the trading floors of the Asian market...