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...Look both ways before crossing the street.” So goes the common traffic adage and so begins Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov’s 1931 opus, “The Golden Calf.” It’s simple enough to be disregarded as a joke, but its relevance permeates the story. With a perfect mesh of timeless wit and political metaphor, “The Golden Calf” is a comedic classic, the recent translation of which only serves to emphasize its timelessness...
...hour allocations, she said. “They did e-mail us prior to the beginning of the semester that they would probably be limiting our weekly schedule to 6 hours,” she said. Other employers are taking similar courses of action to deal with constricted budgets. Ilya E. Luvish, the production services coordinator at Sanders Theater who handles hiring each semester, said that Sanders decided to reduce the number of hours each student could work. “We’re not cutting back on how many people we hire, but we are cutting back...
Artists hoping to avoid becoming a target of Russia's censorship laws may find themselves forced to take a page out of Ilya Glazunov's book. Last week, Putin visited Glazunov, one of Russia's most famous painters, at his studio on the artist's 79th birthday. The Prime Minister paused in front of a painting of a knight, Prince Oleg with Igor, which Glazunov had completed in 1973. Then he offered his critique that the sword in the painting was too short. "It would only be good for cutting a sausage," Putin said. (See pictures of Putin's Patriotic...
...Ilya B. Leskov, a first-year student at Harvard Medical School, and Matthew D. Zimmerman ’09 were awarded the Philip Hofer Prize this month for assembling artistic and literary collections that best captured the spirit of the prize’s namesake, a former Houghton Library curator. Leskov, a Lowell House tutor, received first prize for his collection of antique maps of Paris—an assortment consisting of more than 25 maps, a substantial bibliography, and colored photographs of the maps. “I was always interested in how the city grew and evolved over...
...Fish said. “Princeton didn’t miss a beat.”Harvard’s winning prospects improved with an opening victory in the doubles. At No. 2, the partnership of Ermakov and Omodele-Lucien overcame Princeton’s Ryan Kim and Ilya Trubov (8-4).It was to prove a false omen. No. 3 partnership Hayes and Felton fell to an 8-3 defeat, while the No.1 combination of tenacity and power—Clayton and Chijoff-Evans—was unable to defeat counterparts Peter Capkovic and Alex Vuckovic?...