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...death in 1995, Burri's most famous pieces, including the Sacks and Plastics series, could be found in modern art museums in London, New York, Venice and, most proudly for the artist, in his hometown of Città di Castello in the foothills of central Italy's Apennine mountain range. But today, the town of Città di Castello - and part of Italy's art establishment - is in turmoil, because a large cache of Burri's work is missing. The 15th century palazzo that houses much of his output had been expecting a shipment of 30 more Burri works, kept...
Scaling the steps of Widener is the closest most contemporary Harvard students have come to mountain climbing.But now the Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) is set on revitalizing its faded legacy with an August trek to southeast Kyrgzstan, a country that borders Kazakhstan...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) once drew international fame for impressive expeditions that included leading the United States Army’s 10th Mountain Division in the 1940s, climbing in the Himalayas in the 1950s, and making first ascents of certain mountains in the Canadian Rockies, the Yukon, and Alaska...
Springfest 2002 was considered a huge success—exponentially larger than it had been in recent years, with popular games like the Rocky Mountain Climb and Human Foosball replacing the low-budget Log Roll. The Verve Pipe and a collection of student bands serenaded the all-ages crowd...
After I moved to a secular school, the contradictions continued. I eagerly took to heart an essay my eighth grade history teacher made us read that said “all religions are paths up the same mountain.” I pondered becoming a Jew-dhist when I learned the philosophy of Buddhism later in the year. But I grew uncomfortable when the same class spent just a bit too long discussing the story of “how the Jews killed Jesus.” Religious coexistence, I realized, was never that simple...