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...debate over climate change. We are glad that the U.S. has started to take this obligation seriously but ask that a climate change bill not fall by the wayside. The oil crisis of the 1970s highlighted the dangers of relying on a single energy currency, and we have known for decades that diversification is the key to energy independence. A stronger climate change bill could encourage the development of alternative energy sources and help free the U.S. from dependence on foreign fossil fuels...
Franklin, who was the first woman to receive tenure in the physics department, is widely known for discovering the existence of an elementary particle known as the top quark...
...little-known fact that when the Carpenter Center was designed in 1959, the sidewalk that cuts through the building was intended to be the main pedestrian route between Harvard Yard and the rest of campus, whose expansion beyond Prescott Street was planned but never realized. The purpose of this, according to architect Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris), was to force students to walk through a space for the arts on a regular basis, and in so doing, to make art literally more central to life at Harvard. Last year, the Task Force on the Arts argued that...
Shelby E. Doyle GSD ’11 agrees that the Art Show plays a key role in increasing awareness of the arts at Harvard. “It’s really great that they’re doing it, especially since Harvard isn’t always known for its presence within the arts. When I came here, I was listening to Drew Faust and she said that she was making the arts at Harvard a priority. It’s exciting to have this opportunity...
...shortcomings recurs throughout the collection. Williams’ reflections on his work more often than not lead him to a kind of melancholy. In “Apes,” he wonders, “Could I have passed through my own golden age and not even known I was there?” What is more, Williams acknowledges the wide breadth of his literary knowledge, but also hints that such erudition is not necessarily satisfying or comforting. In the same poem, he writes, “It occurred to me I’ve read enough...