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Radcliffe College merged with Harvard five years ago, to the disappointment of many of its thousands of alumnae. What remains now is the Radcliffe Institute, which revolves around a fellowship program aimed at mid-career professionals...
...even while the Iranian government compels women to wear scarves over their hair, a shirt extending to at least mid-thigh and an article of clothing over the legs, women are allowed to choose exactly how strictly they want to observe the Islamic dress. Many young women, mainly in Tehran, wear scarves that only cover half of their hair, revealing hair in both the front and back. Sometimes, scarves are near-transparent. Their long shirts—called montos—can be tight and decorated with attention-grabbing buttons or zippers. They wear capri pants and high-heels...
Loeb has been traveling around the country since mid-August promoting his book, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Keeping Hope Alive in a Time of Fear, and trying to “broaden the stream” of involvement...
...appetite is thought to have forged the local landforms, and one gets a sense of this in Marralwanga's Ngalyod and Yawkyawk, 1983, in which the two creatures consume each other. Mawurndjul's brother Jimmy Njiminjuma pushed the concept even further in his large-scale serpents from the mid '80s, which wrestle with the very edges of the frame. But no one inhabits Ngalyod better than Mawurndjul, whose increasingly abstract depictions give an insider view of the supreme being. "Where I live," he has said, "a Ngalyod lives under (water), but I paint her from inside my mind...
Harvard can do better. Harvard has done better. The last two reviews, one in the mid-1940s and the other in the mid-1970s, established the idea of a Core curriculum and committed Harvard to teaching “approaches to knowledge,” respectively. Where those reviews were guided by forceful and visionary principles, the review currently underway has failed to articulate any coherent theme, and is stuck trying to convince the greater community that study abroad, dubbed “internationalization,” mixed with a long-called-for reworking of the Core is somehow avant...