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...single individual." The flora he described was sunflowers, and Van Gogh is the one artist who did those blossoms justice. In Sunflowers for Van Gogh (Rizzoli; 149 pages; $25), Photographer David Douglas Duncan captures the luminous, strangely feminine character of his subjects. This glowing tribute to painter and plant offers what seem to be studies of leafy blonds singing in the daylight, mourning in the shadows and brightening the earth when there is scarcely any light source, in Van Gogh's words, "with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize...
...endorses interdisciplinary teaching and research, especially in the sciences, a furtherance of former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ vision that is necessary if the University is to be a leader of science in the 21st century. The report also emphasizes the importance of an environmentally friendly physical plant. In Allston, campus sustainability will be a priority; all projects will be required to meet the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system’s certification. Further, the report attends to transportation concerns and includes a detailed plan for each roadway in the new development...
...Joshua D. Smith ’08 did precisely that. A native of Plant City, Florida—the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World—Smith left home with his conservative credentials intact, and returned having been elected co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA). But the e-mails preaching the right-wing gospel have kept on coming...
...problem with these e-mails is that they comprise about 50 percent of the e-mails from my family and family friends,” Smith says. He has a hard time appreciating the family pictures, jokes, and anecdotes that make the trip from Plant City to ever-so-liberal Cambridge, when they’re overshadowed by the vitriolic diatribes that arrive with them...
...architects and landscape designers are treating them as opportunities to rethink what a park should look like and what it can say. Seattle was already a pioneer in this area by 1975, when the city opened its 20-acre Gas Works Park on the site of an abandoned plant that had once extracted gas from coal. Instead of tearing down the industrial buildings, the city refurbished and repurposed them as play barns and picnic sheds. But while the Gas Works Park includes a big rusted factory, the surrounding greenery doesn't much engage the thing, which stands more or less...