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Marjorie Garber, Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) and Director of the Carpenter Center, finds that the anniversary affords an opportunity to understand both the historical- and use-value of the building. “Buildings, like other art works, are living things that grow and change,” Garber says. At the Carpenter Center, this has meant adding not only mundane needs not included in Le Corbusier’s original design—such as offices for a sufficient number of faculty members—but also finding ways to accommodate changing artistic...
...America into a Middle East quagmire. Even as Secretary Rumsfeld faced his longest day in back-to-back grillings by members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill Friday, the challenge facing tens of thousands of American troops on the ground in Iraq continued to grow, with little sign of respite or resolution. The costs of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in U.S. lives and treasure continues to soar; hostility among ordinary Iraqis to the U.S. presence appears to be growing; hopes have receded that the June 30 transfer of symbolic sovereignty to a yet-to-be determined...
...terms of preventing crime, I think jobs and marriages are the two most important forces. Of course, for teens marriage is simply not an option, but most of these kids come from broken homes. Whatever work we can do to strengthen the base of where people come from and grow up, as well as find ways of increasing their stake in society is important...
...became an editor for the Demon, joined the Crimson staff, became an ECHO counselor, rushed a fraternity, joined my IM basketball team and started a club to make movies with my entryway-mates. But by sophomore year I learned that like rolling balls of snow, extracurricular activities at Harvard grow until they consume you. I watched junior year as my roommate, Rohit Chopra ’04, stopped going to class and lost 22 pounds during the eleven-day campaign for undergraduate council president, and then I watched as he spent 12 months exhausted from...
...immature eggs had the most paternal imprint of all because they had not yet had time to sense that they were living in a female. By fusing these father-like eggs with normal, mother eggs, the Japanese researchers were able to create an organism that could develop and grow...