Word: mold
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...French Ministry of Culture set up in 2002 to deal with the problem. "But that's what they say about Ariel Sharon." The sad fact is that visitors to Lascaux today come to look not for wonder, insight or inspiration. They come to look for fluffy tufts of mold...
This is a story about three kinds of culture: the cultural heritage of Lascaux's art, the stubborn mold that threatens it and the arcane and insular culture of French bureaucracy that diffuses responsibility for what went wrong. But it begins and ends with the beauty and mystery of the Lascaux cave. "It's so spectacular that it boggles the mind," says Jean Clottes, one of the world's foremost experts on cave paintings. "When I first saw it, I cried...
...Summers’ roadmap for the University, professors and administrators say, will be completed by future Harvard presidents. In a way, Summers’ agenda is now the University’s. In this selection of articles, The Crimson delves into the ways in which Summers has attempted to mold Harvardt, successfully and not. Today, it remains unclear whether the University in a few years will resemble the draft Summers has sketched. Instead, Summers’ audacious approach, far more than the specifics of his views, may be his greatest legacy to Harvard. His approach has already laid the groundwork...
...that strategy runs counter to the highly tactical approach that Emanuel has pursued, which is to pick winnable districts and candidates who can win them. Looking to beat popular G.O.P. incumbents, Emanuel has sought out people who break the mold of the white male state legislators who generally run for Congress. He has enough female candidates running in key races that if the Democrats take over, there's sure to be a spate of Year of the Woman stories...
...Christopher Plummer backstage.Nevertheless, Whitman made her choice long ago that night freshman year. She was married a week after Commencement and will be celebrating her 50th wedding anniversary after her 50th Harvard-Radcliffe reunion.FIRST LADYWhile her marriage put her right with her contemporaries, Whitman still broke out of the mold. “One of the things I did was pick the right spouse,” she says. “If he hadn’t been strongly positive and supportive, I’m not sure what would’ve worked in the 1950s...