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...instead to be quietly beautiful. An exquisitely crafted foyer of cedar, textured granite and brushed bronze is lined on one side with floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the brick rear of the original museum. Galleries start underground and work their way up around the broad shaft of natural light that streams through Moneo's glass lantern. At the top 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Light at the Prado Museum | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...door, and smile at you and suddenly, your whole day was made right.” Wood met Rossel in the fall of 2004, when he first glimpsed her outside a lecture room in Peabody Museum. “I looked into her eyes and there was just this light glowing about her,” Wood said. “I had to tear my eyes away or I would have just kept staring at her like a crazy person.”The couple didn’t go on their first date until a year later, when...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Hike, A Life Is Cut Short | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...never going into science, or math, and I’m certainly not going to make a career in philosophy. Even after Science A, I cannot now tell you the difference between an ampere and a light year. I could sum up the categorical imperative in three sentences, but I learned much more about moral reasoning from making hard decisions in my extracurricular than I did listening to my peers’ opinions about the justice of cannibalism. Likewise, I’m not sure what my biochemist blockmates are really gaining from their humanities classes other than cocktail party...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore | Title: The Core in Real Life | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...House for a vote. If passed intact, Rahall's bill would better protect wildlife and water sources from mining threats, in addition to requiring mining companies to pay royalties on metals mined on federal lands. Perhaps in this current eco-conscious era, the bill may finally get the green light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Gold Miners Pay | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

...unrelated charges in Florida for reportedly soliciting underage girls to his Palm Beach mansion and paying them to engage in sexual acts with him and with each other in front of him. Although several politicians who had received donations from Epstein returned the money after the charges came to light last year, Harvard announced that it would not return Epstein’s $30 million gift. The Crimson reported in July 2006 that Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz had agreed to work in Epstein’s defense for the earlier charges, and the New York Post reported...

Author: By Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Donor May Face Accusations of Sexual Abuse | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

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