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...until 1893. By that time Rodin had decided not to marry the increasingly erratic and accusing Claudel and instead to return to his old mistress Beuret. Claudel would respond with her masterpiece of abjection, The Age of Maturity, a commission from the French government that Rodin helped her to obtain. A near life-size bronze, it shows a young woman on her knees reaching out vainly to a man being led away by another woman. This desolate ensemble was supposed to be an allegory of man's inevitable journey toward death. Rodin had no trouble finding in it a disguised...
...College required DormAid’s leaders to obtain the approval of every House master before launching the service at Harvard, a process that took five months...
...Improbably, these trails lead to the doorstep of Manex Chopeitia, boss of the genetic-engineering firm that controls the national telecom and much else in the U.S.-Iberian Federation. Clot faces a dilemma: unmask Chopeitia's plans for world domination and risk death; or play ball and obtain Chopeitia's genetic treatment for his brain-damaged daughter. As in all good westerns, justice triumphs and a cowboy comes to the rescue. But like a true noirish detective story, Blood on the Saddle preserves its moral ambiguities, and Clot lives to solve other cases. First, though, Reig has a different tale...
...protest permit until yesterday afternoon. The Harvard College Dean’s Office sent an e-mail to the group late yesterday afternoon saying that the application “has been rejected by the Dean’s Office” and that HIPJ would need to obtain permission from Wright-Swadel. Wright-Swadel said yesterday evening that he had not been contacted by HIPJ...
Students like Smith, however, disliked the new online study card system, which can sometimes require students to obtain two or even three signatures from the same instructor if they make changes to their printed card...