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...widespread social malaise. If anything, it’s just a symptom of what we already knew about Harvard students: many of them are pretty socially awkward. It should not be a surprise that a great chunk of them haven’t gotten over a middle school model of social interactions...
...region of the country. On March 1, the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG), with the support of more than 20 University faculty members and instructors and 50 student groups, delivered a letter to interim President Derek C. Bok requesting a meeting with him to discuss a “model for targeted divestment” from Sudan. “We got faculty support, we delivered the letter, and now we’re showing strong student support,” said Julie T. Shapiro ’10, the current president of HDAG. After Harvard announced its divestment from...
DIED. Marjabelle Young Stewart, 82, etiquette maven and founder of classes for girls (White Gloves) and boys (Blue Blazers) once offered in 800 U.S. cities; in Kewanee, Ill. Raised in an orphanage and later on an Iowa farm, Stewart married at 17, moved to Washington and became a successful model. She switched careers after co-writing, with Art Buchwald's wife Ann, the lighthearted surprise-hit etiquette tome White Gloves and Party Manners...
...series provides a counterpoint to this antagonism. Each “Nu Zébré” is a variation on the simple but very expressive setup of window blinds cracked open just enough to cast thin stripes of light on a female model. The blinds filter the light in long straight lines, but upon the body each line curves, thickens, and thins in its own unique way. In these slyly minimal photographs, Clergue most creatively celebrates the female form, for which the plain rigidity of the inorganic world is a foil. Here, it is the women...
...designer and technical director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s production of “Pterodactyls,” a play written by Nicky Silver that opens this Friday at the Loeb Experimental Theatre. Thompson is responsible for the show’s visual centerpiece, a model Tyrannosaurus Rex that is nearly nine feet tall. "First off, you have to build a dinosaur. It has to be big. It has to look like a dinosaur. It has to be constructed throughout the play. It has to be at various stages of completion throughout the play. At times...