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Drew Gilpin Faust’s expected election as the 28th President of Harvard College will spark a flurry of attention. Worldwide, headlines will herald Harvard’s first female leader in its 371-year history. But as the world takes note of Harvard’s milestone, it will likely ignore the far more significant crossroads at which Harvard finds itself today...
...south. Akinola, born into the Yoruba tribe, itself divided by the two faiths, was shaped in a crucible of the religious strife that has by now taken thousands of lives on both sides. That experience, combined with his naturally combative and entrepreneurial nature, made him a fearless herald of Christ. Starting when he became a bishop in 1989, Akinola developed Nigeria's hewn-from-the-forest capital, Abuja, into a great Anglican center. Later, he habitually sent bishops to non-Christian areas to preach the Gospel. Muslims sometimes responded violently, but the church gained a presence in the north. Notes...
...glass of hindsight, we see that the elite should have embraced the very first significant comics artist. That was McCay, who, just 100 years and a month before the Los Angeles museum show opened, published his first full-color page of Little Nemo in Slumberland in the New York Herald. Here was a popular art at its onset and apogee: not a primitive Lascaux cave painting but a Sunday-supplement Hieronymus Bosch - a glorious other-world of dreamscapes as phantasmagorical as they were funny...
...McCay did some marketing of the Nemo brand (sandals) and in 1908 put the boy on Broadway, in a spectacle with music by Victor Herbert. But the strip didn't achieve great popularity; it was not syndicated nationally, running only in the New York Herald, then in the New York American. Decades would pass before a new generation of connoisseurs saw the art in Little Nemo. (Original pages can sell for $30,000 today.) The fish with the same name in the 2003 Pixar film is surely a tribute to McCay's pioneering lushness of imagination and precision of design...
...both a special citation from the Shorenstein Center and a Pulitzer last year. The six teams of reporters nominated for this year’s finals wrote for The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, The Seattle Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Miami Herald. Their investigations ranged from an expose of “the tactics of unscrupulous debt collection firms” in Massachusetts to “unethical manipulation” of stock options by Wall Street executives, according to a statement from the center. Three of the stories that made last year?...