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...confronted by 4-m-long bulls that appear to float across the massive vaults like religious apparitions. An enigmatic spotted beast with a round snout and straight, forward-pointing horns, plump horses in brilliant yellow and deer with treelike antlers - all seem in equal part intimates of the present and missives from some distant world. Which they are. Though the draftsmanship is strikingly Modernist - on exiting the cave in 1940, Pablo Picasso said, "We have invented nothing" - these creatures were painted and inscribed on the limestone walls during the Upper Paleolithic age, when everyone was a hunter-gatherer, and Homo...
...down the block? Judging by the growing number of political, social and environmental activist groups started by moms and grandmas, you'd be wise this Mother's Day (May 14--don't forget!) to seek tips from your maternal elders. Here's a look at Ma Power, past and present...
...Crimson against Harvard. The newspaper had argued that private university police are bound by the same public records laws as their publicly-funded peers. HUPD’s force includes officers who are deputized by the Middlesex and Suffolk County sheriffs and who are sworn special state police. At present, the only crime information released by HUPD is a brief summary in an online police log. A campus security watchdog group says that’s not enough. “Without this bill, members of the Harvard community will continue to be denied critical campus crime report information that...
...heart froze, it took my breath away. A voice inside my head said “we don’t belong here—she cannot compete with these students.” During the senior year my daughter served on the honor council and had to present evidence against her best friend. She did so, knowing that she would lose a young man who meant the world to her for five years of daily phone calls, instant messages and zany, ridiculous outings. He spent the night before the hearing apologizing to her for cheating; she begged...
...questions about the distinction between a student’s academic career and personal life, and what the limits of the College’s disciplinary jurisdiction ought to be. The Ad Board does have—and should have—broad authority in cases such as the present one. As the Faculty of Arts and Sciences states in the Student Guide to the Ad Board, “by accepting membership in the University, an individual joins a community ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive...