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Last Friday was a quiet milestone in the history of Harvard University’s growth from a small college endowed with little more than the estate of a puritan minister to the rich and powerful academic force it is today. But unlike other important moments in Harvard’s history, there was no pomp and circumstance surrounding this one—only Jack R. Meyer, the man who oversaw the more than five fold growth of Harvard’s riches in just 15 years, walking out of Harvard Management Company’s (HMC) Boston offices...
...they’re back at Harvard and struggling to catch up on everything they missed while they were away. Once-inseparable groups of friends have grown apart, and formerly quiet freshmen are now hard-partying seniors...
...museum wondering what Cernuschi and the curators who followed him could - or should - have bought. Calligraphy from the Han dynasty? Silver and gold ornaments from the Tang dynasty? But neither Cernuschi the man nor Cernuschi the museum intended to present an exhaustive collection of Asian art. Instead, in a quiet residential quarter of Paris, the museum offers, as curator Gilles Béguin eloquently puts it, an "aesthetic promenade," a kind of random walk through the earliest periods of Chinese art. And that is exactly what makes the Musée Cernuschi unique among museums of Asia. Just what Enrico...
Facing the river on the Left Bank is a new hotel that makes my list, the Htel Esprit Saint Germain--discreet and quiet, and a quick sprint from some of the city's favorite haunts. A tiny, cute, retrofitted dairy, Cremerie Caves Miard (9, Rue des Quatre-Vents), provides a lunch or dinner antidote for jet lag. The young chef-owner serves seasonal, simple country food and fascinating wines...
...films of David Cronenberg, including “Videodrome,” “Scanners,” “The Fly,” and “Naked Lunch,” burst with scathingly visceral imagery; and yet the man himself is a quiet and introspective intellectual with a sly, engaging charm...