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...View from Valencia With regard to Geoff Pingree's article on Valencia's new opera house [Feb. 26]: My husband and I have been to four performances at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía. We can understand why people are dazzled by the hall's "curved walls, rolling stairways; turquoise reflecting pools topped by a detached, featherlike roof." Artistic quality is indeed high, and the acoustics are excellent. Each seat is equipped with a small screen allowing you to see the libretto in one of several languages. But surely, for the €325 million that the building...
...With regard to spectators and school spirit, suggestions included a prominent link to the Harvard athletics Web site and game schedules on the my.harvard portal, as well as a UC-sponsored shuttle service to get people across the river to big games...
Between the caricatures of the hedonist and Puritan poles lies a vast, silent swath of the student body that is consciously apolitical in regard to gender. In an age of irony and apathy, post-Third Wave feminism (see sidebar), women especially are willing to speak up for or against war, Social Security, or even a nebulous category of “women’s issues,” as long as they can keep a safe distance from the term feminism, which conjures images of angry, man-hating lesbians. Not only are Harvard’s conservatives and liberals...
...does get some kind of an offer,” Kerr says, “it would have to be significant. I know Andre’ and his family hold education in high regard. It would be foolish to give it up for a small contract...
...barely conceivable that a war, which posterity will very likely regard as the most unintelligible in our history, might justifiably produce a certain mild disquietude on the part of those who may be called upon to fight it?” the historian wrote in a letter at the height of the Vietnam...