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Some were almost impenetrably learned: no ordinary visitor today knows enough about Renaissance astrology to "read" the arcane designs in the Room of the Winds. Others are quite straightforward, like those in the chamber in which Federico had Giulio and his assistants paint life-size effigies of his favorite horses, with their names written underneath them. In between there is an amazing variety of images, some of which seem to teeter between grandeur and farce in a way unheard of in Renaissance art before...
Harvard's large size allows different faculties to follow their own affirmative action programs, Quincy said. Although this decentralization sometimes aids hiring efforts, the lack of a "campus-wide game plan" more often tends to work against such programs, he said...
...best thing about L.P.'s is the packaging. They're the size that a piece of music is meant to be. You can hold an album's cover and read the liner notes and lyrics and grasp the full meaning--the full cosmic earth-shaking force that rock 'n roll at its best can be. I know they put all the same information in C.D.'s and cassettes these days, but it's always in the form of some fold-out thingamagig like the pamphlets they hand out on street corners about safe sex or finding Jesus or joining...
...city the size of Cambridge, this situation is unacceptable. Violent crimes occur here every day--for example, one shuttle bus driver recently was accosted after parking his bus near the Business School. Unless the University does something to address a growing security problem, it is only a matter of time before the next student is mugged, assaulted or raped...
...size of an earthquake is determined partly by the length of the fault segment that slips. In addition, large earthquakes tend to be spaced further apart than small ones, since it takes a much longer time to accumulate sufficient stress. While scientists cannot say exactly where or when the next Big One will hit, they are not without hunches. Southern California, which has not had a Big One since 1857, is every seismologist's first...