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Valvo's attitude toward glamour is democratic. His dresses have Vera Wang grace, Narciso Rodriguez sexiness and the intricate detailing and embellishment of Valentino couture. His careful construction makes such high styles suitable for a variety of body types and sizes. The shutter-pleat dress, for example, consists of bias-cut strips of fabric stitched together to create a de facto corset. "They're miracle dresses," Valvo says. "Put the body in there and--shoop! The bias expands and controls. Everyone ends up with this amazing hourglass figure...
Rudenstine did these things with decency, grace, and an appreciation for the civility so essential to a university. In a 1992 commencement address, he warned against individuals who “have sometimes been deliberately provocative” when discussing other members of the community. “We do need to recognize that each [person] has the potential to divide communities quite sharply,” he said. “Over time, patterns of behavior that are divisive or clearly disruptive can take a heavy toll.” Division, Rudenstine thought, was not the hallmark...
Next semester, some of the top professors to grace Harvard’s lecterns may be things of the past. Rival universities are taking advantage of the ongoing controversy between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and University President Lawrence H. Summers to court valuable professors, including at least two senior faculty members—Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 and Chair of the Sociology Department Mary C. Waters. Faculty members who are being wooed by other schools must stay not only for Harvard students, but for themselves, and for the good of the University...
...Jessica Grace Wing had always been ambitious. A graduate student in film, she had already co-founded a small New York City theater company when she learned, on the eve of her 30th birthday in July 2001, that she had terminal colon cancer. Knowing she would never complete a full-length film, Wing decided to use her remaining time and energy to compose an opera--not exactly a step down in ambition. Although her health deteriorated quickly, she never ceased working, composing on a laptop in her hospital bed. "Creating was her love," says her father Bill Wing...
...creative talent, where the film was shot, and when and where it opened. Because the submission process is so labyrinthine, films like Almodovar’s Bad Education, Kar-Wai Wong’s 2046, Akin’s Head On, Marston’s Maria Full of Grace, Jeunet’s A Very Long Engagement, and Salles’s The Motorcycle Diaries didn’t even end up as possibilities due to a series of regulations...