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Museums of Cultural and Natural History. Ongoing. "Birthstones" Explores the cultural and natural history of birthstones, and how perceptions of these precious and semiprecious gems have been influenced by mythology and astronomy...
...Houghton '58, the Chief executive officer of Corning, Inc., to replace Charles P. Slichter '45 as a member of the Harvard Corporation, the University's highest governing board. We were disaapointed with the University's choice, since Houghton appears as just one more corporate executive on a body with precious few academics. The Corporation is not merely responsible for the fiscal operation of the University, but also must approve the decisions of Harvard's faculty. Thus the Corporation's composition has a direct impact on the academic functioning of the University...
...taken my blues and gone," the poet Langston Hughes once lamented. Well, Langston, you wouldn't believe where rock performers are trying to take your precious blues in the '90s. British guitarist Eric Clapton's prim but praiseworthy blues album From the Cradle has sold 3 million copies so far, and he's starting the second leg of his successful concert tour in August. Dan Aykroyd, who donned dark glasses to become one of the Blues Brothers on TV show Saturday Night Live and in movies, now helps run the House of Blues, a Hard Rock Cafe-style restaurant chain...
Harvard and its reputation are too precious to put at risk by an entity which is maverick to Harvard's way of doing things. If you have your doubts as to what happens when time-tested procedures are not followed, just take a walk over to the Medical schools and take a gander at the power plant...
...There has been a water shortage since a comet hit earth thirty years prior. The bad guys are the Department of Water and Power, and they control the flow of the precious commodity. The head of the DWP, and major wet blanket, Kesslee, is played with exacting villainy by Malcolm McDowell. McDowell is, of course, the arch enemy of our beloved rebelle Tank Girl (as well as of any actor trying to get a bad guy role these days...