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...doors Sept. 15. The museum, which encompasses the northwest wing of the Louvre and has been a Parisian institution since 1905, has been closed for 10 years. The restored and redesigned galleries reflect a new approach to presentation. The permanent collection, with pieces ranging from furniture by Baroque master André-Charles Boulle to contemporary designs by Philippe Starck and Marc Newson, will be displayed chronologically and by artist or workshop, allowing visitors to understand the historical and cultural contexts from which the works are derived. The sweeping collection includes 150,000 pieces of furniture, porcelain, glass, textiles, toys and jewels...
...nursed to health by U.S. doctors) for a reason: to help the other side. It's that strange conviction that generated the few, modest disclosures of use to the U.S. Complicating matters is that Zubaydah was more a facilitator--a glorified al-Qaeda travel agent--than the operational master the Administration trumpeted him as. Also, he suffers from multiple personalities. His diary, which the government refuses to release, is written in three voices over 10 years and is filled with page after page of quotidian nonsense about housekeeping, food and types...
...Aleksy visited Harvard in 2003 in a bid to have the bells returned. In an e-mail to Lowell House last week, Eck and Co-Master Dorothy A. Austin wrote that "we will certainly have another visit from Russia to Lowell House" this academic year...
...manager, Peter Riley of Harvard Real Estate Services, said the University is currently soliciting proposals from Russian foundries to replicate the bells for Harvard. Riley and Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck were part of a Harvard delegation that took a whirlwind tour of Russian foundries and belfries in August in preparation for the bells' return...
...said in Friday’s interview that he hopes to “continue the momentum” regarding Harvard’s plans for Allston. Specifically, he explained, he intends to review the plans for the campus’s first new buildings, to submit a master plan to the City of Boston, and to establish “design guidelines” for Harvard’s construction projects in Allston...