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...that was built to be Harvard’s student center. In 1899, Governing Board member and philanthropist Major Henry Lee Higginson announced his donation of “a great house on college grounds” that would serve to unite the divided student body. The lavish building was to be the center of undergraduate life, with “ample space for reading, study, games, and conversation,” a library, offices for all student activities, publications and athletics, as well as Harvard’s famous “Great Hall.” Higginson?...
Visitors to the penthouse at the Holyoke Center today will no longer find the elegant dining room designed for Harvard’s most lavish events, but instead a number of sun-bathed offices with the best views in Cambridge. The only traces to remind a visitor that this floor was the setting of one of the great tragedies of modern art are found in the Harvard chairs that decorate the offices. Though typical across the University, these particular chairs are distinguished by rubber bumpers affixed to their backs...
With such depth and skill at each guard position, Delaney-Smith has good reason to lavish praise upon the unit...
...maybe Garcia Marquez did not have to bend them much. The Nobel-prizewinning Colombian novelist has always maintained that he was not a magic realist but just a writer making the most of the lavish realities of Latin America. After reading his abundant new memoir, Living to Tell the Tale (Knopf; 484 pages), you'll be inclined to agree. In a warm but largely matter-of-fact style, he recalls the headless man who rode past one day on a donkey, killed by a machete in a settling of accounts on the nearby banana plantation. Then there was the fishing...
...Brazil to agree," says Connolly. "At best we may see a cosmetic ftaa that has no teeth." That might not upset U.S. President George W. Bush. As he mounts his 2004 re-election campaign, U.S. labor unions and Florida citrus and sugar barons, all famed for lavish campaign contributions, have voiced their own loathing for the pact. In the end, Brazil's "daring" just may give Bush the political out he needs at home - as well as the political boost Lula wants abroad...