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...your report "Too Posh To Push," about the increase in scheduled Csections [April 19]: Are women seeking caesarean births because they are worried only about fitting their babies into their schedules? Hardly. Your story noted some risks of natural childbirth (pelvic-floor damage and incontinence) but focused primarily on nonmedical reasons for C-sections. Most men, however, would not volunteer to spend the next 40 years with bladder and bowel problems. Why should women? More time needs to be spent on women's health issues and less on preserving low surgical birth rates and saving money. KARI ZANGERLE Phoenix, Ariz...
Each morning, the members of Harvard’s African and African American Studies Department pass by Cornel R. West ’74 on the way to their offices on the second floor of the Barker Center. He does not bid them “Good morning,” nor does he offer so much as a wave. He just sits there, day after day, wearing the same black suit and the same intense, intellectual look on his face...
...practice such as Huyghe’s, which has made use of photography, film, video, sculpture, architecture, and new media, corresponds closely with the panorama one gets as he or she descends from the third floor landing, down the ramp to Prescott Street...
...make it into the final design, and the earliest plans feature not a spiral, but a smooth ramp weaving through the middle of the Carpenter Center. Likewise, the path along the Carpenter Center’s ramp is not animated by the black and white checkerboard terrazzo floors Le Corbusier initially intended for the second and third floor studios visible through the large glass windows of this interior space. But the ramp still provided a view into the life of the building, so visitors would understand its purpose and the practice of art was immediately visible to the Harvard community...
Huyghe’s project, which will take place, at least in part, in the Harvard University Art Museums’s Sert Gallery on the third floor of the Carpenter Center, might potentially extend to the building itself. Norden notes that Huyghe “wants to do something that will really entail the site. He doesn’t want to bow down to the father...