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Over seventy years ago, in the face of Stalin’s anti-religious purge, the once-famed and numerous bells of Moscow were melted down. One of the few sets to survive the era, the seventeen bells of the St. Danilov monastery, was bought by American entrepreneur Charles R. Crane, who decided later to donate them to Harvard. In 1930, they became part of one of Harvard’s most distinctive architectural features: the Lowell House bell tower. Now, almost 20 years after the reopening of the monastery, multilateral talks between the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian government...
...spent the first seventeen and a half years of my life thinking I was going to Duke,” Maxson says. “It’s something that’s always been real familiar...
...that simple. Random though he may seem to studious undergraduates, John told FM that he graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1968. From there, he taught mathematics at Northern Illinois University for twenty years before returning to his hometown. For the past seventeen years, he has been doing research for an economist at the Kennedy School of Government, a job which provides him with swipe access to his favorite library. As for the Wolverine-esque sideburns, today’s impressive product is the result of several long years of grooming. When he?...
Brands like Aveda and Origins are finding packaging and energy alternatives. "Seventeen years ago, when we started Origins, there weren't many sustainable materials available," says Daria Myers, the company's global president. "We used recycled paper, about 20% postconsumer. We were as natural as we could be while still protecting the products." These days all of Origins' outer packaging is 50% postconsumer recycled fiber and certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, and the cartons are manufactured using only wind- or hydropower. And by July, all 500 Origins products will have been reformulated without parabens, controversial chemical preservatives that...
...capital of Minnesota. Milwaukee’s a place where people actually care about learning, which is why every year the city sends us off to university with a “Greatest Minds” parade. We know the mayor meant well, but it took us over seventeen days to get out here on that fucking float. Back at Harvard, the transition was rocky as usual as we endured another Hell Week, aka shopping period. We thought this one might be different, but we didn’t take it as a good sign when we found out that...