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...chosen as the architect nearly a decade before the matter was settled, and he has produced a temple of culture even a banker could love. Sitting on a plain high above the rest of Luxembourg City, the museum is laid out like an arrowhead, echoing the old, arrow-shaped Thüngen Fortress next door (soon to be a museum itself). Mudam's exterior is sheathed in French "Louvre" limestone that radiates the honeyed glow of its Parisian namesake. The interior - bright, airy and playful - is well-suited to the occasional zaniness of the art on display. Even the museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Coming-Out Party | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...cost of the vaccination, it is available for $462. According to Rosenthal, UHS prescribes 30 to 40 doses each week. But while the high price tag could discourage some students, others said that the money would be well worth the vaccine’s benefits. “No matter how much money it costs, you should do whatever you can to get it,” Molly C. Tarrant ’10 said. And Dr. Eric Rubin, an associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the school of public health, said yesterday that the vaccine...

Author: By Daniel P. Gurney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gov. Patrick Proposes Free HPV Vaccines | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...public education system isn’t top of the charts. I know it’s a game for you to put funny words in your paper—but Stephen, you can’t put this in here!”No matter what their background, homeschoolers are hit with a barrage of new experiences and expectations upon arriving in Cambridge.Norberg may have eventually finished his Expos assignment, but the year still presented many challenges. While his classes were not too difficult for him, he was unaccustomed to studying for tests or attending large lecture classes...

Author: By Logan R. Ury, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In a class of their own | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

Stepping down from that pedestal requires us to be truthful with ourselves about the farcical concepts of meritocracy that we use to justify our privilege. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of the world, living on under two dollars a day and not speaking Harvard’s language of instruction, has no chance of even attending college, much less Harvard. I refuse to believe that out of billions of people there is not one person that under different circumstances could have taken my place here; we surely aren’t the only...

Author: By Kyle A. De beausset | Title: The American Mirage | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...Minister Shinzo Abe last month elevated Japan's Defense Agency to a full-fledged Cabinet-level ministry, and is aiming to change the country's pacifist constitution, which could open the door for more frequent foreign deployments for the SDF. "For the past 50 years, Japan intentionally ignored the matter of defense," says Toshiyuki Shikata, a defense analyst at Teikyo University. But now, he adds, Japan is waking up to its own military power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Off With the Japanese Navy | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

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