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...They don’t know what is going on.” Whitfield said the tree’s roots may have been damaged by equipment used in Harvard’s construction project. But Harvard Director of Community Relations Thomas Lucey said the damage was already present in 2004, prior to the construction, according to a survey done by a certified arborist. The arborist reported that the tree was “high risk and exhibited root decay,” Lucey said. “We hire contractors who are very sensitive to trees and the environment...
...life is returning to normal following the war in northern Israel, the 22nd Annual Haifa Film Festival opened this past weekend to big crowds. When life returns to normal in Gaza, children will be able to attend school without fear. This is the sad state of affairs at the present moment in the Middle East...
...beautiful album leaf covered with a rendering of the Chinese mountainside. To make the leaves, Li Junyi forsook a standard brush for a gridded stamping technique that some have likened to the work of contemporary American artist Chuck Close. Li’s unusually geometric depictions of the landscape present a squarely classical subject through the lens of an entirely new technique. An accompanying label notes that Li created “Sacrifice” to commemorate students who died in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests...
...trend: Dressing like a character in an Evelyn Waugh novel, a perennial Harvard pastime, is even more popular than ever here in Cambridge. Two august clothing vendors in Harvard Square—J. Press and The Andover Shop—have been supplying finals club members past and present with houndstooth and herringbone for decades. Denis E. Black, manager of J. Press, has worked in the Square for over thirty years and introduced generations of clueless freshmen to their first pocket squares. “There are hills and valleys, and now we’re at a high point...
...committee, which Murray co-chaired along with physicist Christopher W. Stubbs and biochemist Christopher T. Walsh, is scheduled to present a final report to Harvard’s governing boards in December...