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...Purser's personal ethos is based upon old-fashioned ideals of hard work and country living. On a fine, Monday morning, the women of Tembi gather in a pleasant pavilion in the center of town to construct nested rattan boxes for Marshall Field's, the Chicago-based department store chain. As Purser wanders through a clean-swept clearing sheltered by what he calls a "hugely important" banyan tree, where a member of the royal house of Yogyakarta is buried, residents make way for him with discreet Javanese gestures of respect. "When someone gets married, I'm there. When someone dies...
...shows. The New York Times dismissed the Guggenheim's Armani show, an exhibition of outfits and sketches currently on tour in Berlin, as "a shortsighted exchange of cash for dignity." In Venice, Krens has another role, one about which he is ambivalent: caretaker of the Biennale's U.S. pavilion. The Guggenheim Foundation owns the building - all prissy porticoes, pedimented façade and pretty windows - but, for all of Krens' clout, he has no say in what is displayed inside. That is the prerogative of the Federal Advisory Committee on International Exhibitions, which reports to the State Department...
...game, it was. Those there—Dave Merchant among them—watched what should have been the fading embers of a modestly successful career blaze up one last, magnificent time like a funeral pyre, as Merchant, heart afire, delivered a barnburner for the ages to Lavietes Pavilion...
...reached by a maximum six-hour trip down I-95, that’s still plenty of time for the Crimson’s enterprising scribes to get in trouble. And while there’s nothing I enjoy more than a Harvard game at the Stadium or Lavietes Pavilion, sometimes the best memories are made on the road. Let me take you inside my world of traveling for Harvard sports...
Rahul Rohatgi may have been the single most likeable person in the Harvard sports universe. The Crimson, Lavietes Pavilion and the football press box were like home to him, and everyone was family. He was just as comfortable making a freshman feel good about having shown up to a meeting as he was saddling up to do WHRB halftime shows. Every team needs someone who keeps the disparate personalities one. Rahul—a people person for the ages—was ours, and a damn good writer to boot...