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Candidates for next week’s Cambridge City Council election—incumbents and challengers alike—listed housing affordability, taxes, and education as top local issues at a candidates’ forum last night. Challengers sharply criticized incumbents’ stances on these issues and others at...

Author: By Anna M. Friedman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Candidates Meet at City Council Forum | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

No one would have blamed them for a sub-par performance. Traveling to Rhode Island and Connecticut for the last stops on the most grueling stretch of its schedule, the Crimson co-ed sailing team could have been forgiven for showing some signs of fatigue, despite the importance of the...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Registers Another Busy Weekend Before ACCs | 10/24/2005 | See Source »

It was April 18, 1916, and a volatile group of artists who'd found refuge from World War I in Switzerland were gathered around a table at Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire, arguing about a label for themselves and their work. They settled this dispute, according to art lore, by thrusting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Gaga Over Dada | 10/23/2005 | See Source »

The U.S. empire, on the other hand, was not created through economic dominance but crafted through political means, according to Hobsbawm. He pointed to this as the U.S.’s “biggest strength and weakness,” since the political forces that hold the empire...

Author: By Lev Menand, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Leading Historian Says U.S. ‘Empire’ To Fail | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

The figures in the two frames face each other. One is a study of sullen little girl rendered in hasty brushstrokes. The other, a delicately sketched Renaissance noblewoman, is a copy of a drawing attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci. At first glance, these two works seem to have little in...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seeing Degas Through Wolohojian’s Eyes | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

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