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Seventy-three years after a Russian monastery’s bells were shipped across the Atlantic and hoisted into the Lowell bell tower, a delegation of monks have arrived at Harvard to urge the University to return the sacred instruments...
This weekend, a group from Danilov—the center of the Russian Orthodox Church—will meet with University Vice President Alan J. Stone to try to persuade Harvard to give them back...
...while a prominent Russian bell-ringer told the St. Petersburg Times last year that the University should foot the bill for returning the bells, church leaders have been more moderate and have talked about raising their own funds to finance the bells’ shipment...
...National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies also receives roughly $626,000 annually from the Higher Education Act, of which the majority funds Foreign Language Fellowships and the rest goes to material acquisitions and language programs. Ten percent of the budget of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and 30 percent of the Slavic language publications acquisition budget comes from these funds...
...photographs were taken with a Japanese Art Panorama camera, a replacement for Wenders’s stolen Russian Horizon camera. The Art Panorama, however, was extremely heavy, and the Aboriginals with whom Wenders traveled gave him the name “the madman with the camera.” Wenders defended his choice of cameras in the companion book to the exhibition, Wim Wenders: Photos...