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Around this time last year, Harvard students campus-wide were balancing two thick paperback books, one on each knee, in an awkward attempt to choose classes. They were punching in long URLs to get to course websites and course videos, and they were googling to find the dates of the College’s spring break...
Sophomore forward Charles Althek may also not be seen against the Catamounts this week. Altchek went down holding his right knee 10 minutes into the match, but managed to walk off the field under his own power. The extent of his injury is not yet known, but Kerr said that he “wishes [Altchek...
...into a massive collection of American Indian objects. He discovered his life's mission as a 23-year-old engineering graduate of Columbia University, working as a railroad-construction superintendent in Kingman, Ariz. It was 1897, a moment--after American soldiers had killed Sitting Bull, massacred hundreds at Wounded Knee and captured Geronimo--when the white conflict with Native Americans was at last almost entirely decided in the settlers' favor. Indians were beginning their final transition in the white imagination from serious competitors to something like endangered species, figures who could be romanticized or despised, sometimes both at once. Years...
...University at Buffalo and a Tuscarora Indian, who is a guest curator, doesn't think so. "There are other places where you can learn the exact dates of the Trail of Tears," she says. "It's less important to me that someone leave this museum knowing all about Wounded Knee than that they leave knowing what it takes to survive that kind of tragedy." The "tremendous 'before'" is still part of this place. But the "tremendous 'after'" is what the people here care about most...
...photography installation and a book about the city. Last fall Hugo Boss, which is based in Metzingen, in southern Germany, held its annual fashion show and party in an abandoned Berlin post office. The look of Berlin--a low-key mix of vintage leather coats, rolled-up scarves and knee-high boots--has been a favorite for several seasons. And the city is widely cited as a wellspring of electronic dance music. "Everybody in fashion and music in Europe is going to Berlin now to get ideas," says Phillip Wolff, communications director at Hugo Boss. "It's not as sophisticated...