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...make peace with the past. His real instinct was forward, into pictures like David with the Head of Goliath, possibly one of his last. The victorious David, rumored to have been modeled after one of the artist's male lovers, holds the severed head of Goliath, a plain self-portrait of the artist. The painting is Caravaggio at the height of his lethal powers. Throughout his life he included his own likeness in his canvases. But in exile, as he meditated more forcefully on his fate, he appears more frequently than ever. In The Raising of Lazarus - a powerful topic...
That's true, at least, for Meridiani Planum, the plain near the Martian equator, where Opportunity set down. By pure good fortune, the rover landed inside a small crater gouged by an ancient meteorite. This natural excavation exposed ancient layers of crust laid down by a shallow lake that had periodically dried up and refilled. Spirit landed half a world away in giant Gusev Crater, on what looked like a lake bed but turned out to be lava. Frustrated, mission scientists ordered the rover to move on. "We were already at 80 days, but we decided to put the pedal...
Cigar bars evoke Old Harvard—sophistication, sex appeal, and just plain pretension. Although times are changing on the outside, these smoky back rooms are still predominantly male institutions. But whether you blend in with the boys or stick out like a girl in CS 161, Boston’s cigar bars provide a variety of options for a celebratory smoke...
...well-known that classical music puts people to sleep. It’s inaccessible, it’s arcane, and it’s boring, boring, boring. Now, it’s our job to convince you that all of those assumptions are just plain wrong...
...according to the advisory, “both the Cambridge Police Department and the Harvard University Police Department are working aggressively to find the persons responsible for this incident and will continue to deploy both uniformed and plain clothes officers to patrol areas that students frequently...