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...comes the delicious surprise: a gorgeously restored Baroque cloister - dismantled from the neighboring San Jerónimo church and carefully reassembled in the new wing - that functions as a sculpture gallery. "The Prado has never been known for its sculpture collections," says Zugaza. "Now we have an ideal place to show them...
...many in Harvard’s anthropology department, Rossel’s death came as an overwhelming shock.“A lot of people here are completely devastated,” said Theodore C. Bestor, anthropology department chair and professor of archaeology. “Stine was an ideal person in every respect, and she is irreplaceable to us.”A memorial service for Rossel will be held on Thursday in Memorial Church at 4 p.m., followed by a reception on the third floor of Peabody Museum. “She’s the kind...
House: Kirkland. Concentration: Psychology, economics. Hometown: Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Ideal Date: Mexican food, hookah, and “Family Guy.” Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: Toss up between serenading me with Tchaik in D and bringing me bubble tea. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Living single, seeing double, sleeping triple. Or just wishing it. First thing you notice about a guy: His Asian fetish...or hopefully lack thereof. Your best pick-up line: Not mine, but...“Do you have a keg in your pants? Because I wanna...
...immigrant community, it is difficult to tread the line between ethnic assimilation and self-preservation. Academics have attempted to describe and define this tension in many ways, most famously with the metaphor of the American “melting pot.” A crude assimilationist model of this ideal might have us believe that foreigners arrive in the United States via some sort of cultural liquidation sale, ready to absorb into a gloopy, grey and nondescript soup characterized primarily by football, Big Macs and turkey stuffing. A more preservationist version might resemble throwing a sack of stubborn potatoes into...
...their action as part of a larger battle to make society understand that the sex workers are poor people struggling to survive, and not prostitution entrepreneurs. "People think the point of our organization is expand prostitution in Bolivia," says ONAEM's Perez. "In fact, we want the opposite. Our ideal world is one free of the economic desperation that forces women into this business." But in the meantime, her group "will fight tooth and nail for the rights we deserve...