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...outshine in a number of areas even the best options we have now. The ideal fuel will annul the feed-versus-fuel debate by complementing, not compromising, the global food supply. Old-fashioned energy politics may still be at play, but scientific advances and increasingly distressed socioeconomic systems signal a readiness to move towards more efficient, less destructive sources of energy. We must now call for an intelligently executed transition from chasing the easy, expedient answers, to seeking the best ones...
...time Delanoë made that call, the curators had moved to provide that context. Visitors to the Historic Library are now informed in several languages that the pictures were shot by André Zucca, a Frenchman hired by the German magazine Signal to capture scenes of Paris flourishing under Nazi rule. Zucca's bosses' gave him extremely rare and valuable rolls of Agfacolor film to shoot his busy shoppers, café-lounging lovers, parks filled with parents and playing children, and ultra-chic Parisiennes sporting the last word in fashionably enormous eyewear...
...Cramer ’77 in these pages, reviewing a Harvard Jazz Band concert with trombonists Phil Wilson and Carl Fontana. And although Cramer, who would be come The Crimson’s president, expressed hope that “Monday night’s concert will signal the beginning of Harvard’s sprint to overtake the rest of the collegiate runners in a race to recognize jazz’s rightful place on campus,” not much has changed—at least by way of giving jazz greater prominence in the academic world. While...
Your excellent obituary of former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles omitted one of Knowles’s signal contributions to the University: his integral role in the 1999 merger of Harvard and Radcliffe. The merger dissolved the 120-year-old Radcliffe College, created the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and brought female undergraduates fully into the Harvard fold. Knowles and Mary Maples Dunn, who became the first acting dean of the Institute, hammered out one of the merger’s most contentious questions, whether Radcliffe would have its own tenured faculty or a collection of visiting scholars...
...threatened to withdraw its forces from the dangerous zone around Kandahar; the French move should allow the U.S. to redeploy more troops from the east to Kandahar and other hot spots. For Air Chief Marshall Jock Stirrup, the head of Britain's armed forces, this "sends a very important signal ... It's not just that the French are sending more troops, but it is to a very difficult area...