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...until last week, when the Northeast Asian History Foundation, a nonprofit research group based in Seoul, South Korea, announced that it would be donating $1 million to Harvard’s Korea Institute over a five-year period. The grants will be used to fund the Early Korea Project, an interdisciplinary inquiry into the premodern history of the Korean Peninsula. The aims of the Early Korea Project are admirable, and we applaud the Northeast Asian History Foundation for its generous and much-needed financial donation. While the study of premodern Korean history has been sidelined by much larger and better...
...interactions with its neighbors. “A strong, viable relationship is not founded on the liquidation of history, but by building viable trust,” said Yongdeok Kim, president of the Seoul-based foundation, which will dispense the grant over the five years to the Early Korea Project. The grant will fund a series of workshops and publications, including an academic journal presenting Korean scholarship in English. The Early Korea Project—an initiative under the Korea Institute at the Center for Government and International Studies—aims to promote and lead research of Korean history...
...oven-roasted eggplant, braised octopus with smoked paprika and extra virgin olive oil, and langoustines à la plancha. And I felt like a hypocrite.At a Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) meeting earlier this year, HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin and Jessica Zdeb, the coordinator of the Food Literacy Project, introduced the ongoing debate regarding the nutritional facts labels displayed above each dish in the dining hall. In their current form, the cards provide a profile for each dish in the dining hall, detailing their caloric, carbohydrate, fiber, protein, and total and saturated fat contents. Those who oppose the nutritional placards...
...Pinker said. “Chance fluctuations tend to be amplified.” Pinker united with fellow literary luminaries Robert Pinsky, Leslie Epstein, and Maureen McLane to decry bestseller lists at an event called “The Best Recommended: A National Book Critics Circle Project,” co-sponsored by the Harvard Book Store and held at the Brattle Theatre on Wednesday, Feb. 6. The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) started its “Best Recommended” project at the end of 2007 to bridge the gap between bestseller lists, which show what...
It’s virtually impossible to talk about The Magnetic Fields, the main musical vehicle for crooning NYC songwriter Stephen Merritt, without mentioning their calling card, 1999’s staggering “69 Love Songs.” With that album, Merritt gave birth to a project that so perfectly matched its ambitions, both through its flawless melodies and its irresistible sense of irony, that every work of his before or since has fallen in its shadow. Naturally, and perhaps intentionally, 2004’s “i” disappointed, with its tacked-on concept...