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...conservation of the Sargeant murals has been one of Center’s most exciting tasks under his tenure. “It was a very big project that gave us a chance to do significant work and to present the work we were doing and the sheer size of it all to the Boston public through webcam,” Lie says. “I’d say that is one of the most interesting projects we’ve done.” ACCESS HARVARD BOOKSThough the restoration process of the Sargeant murals was made accessible...
...landscape painter, is excited about the professional nature of the show and the opportunity that it presents to Harvard artists. When asked about the selection criteria, Breeden said, “We’re going to be looking at the quality of the work and its size but also its sell-ability.” She later stressed that, ultimately, there will be no stringent formula. Breeden herself plans to submit to the show; however, she is quick to laughingly affirm that she will not be on the committee who decides the fate of her pieces. Students will...
...Gates did say he's sure of one thing: He doesn't want to keep boosting U.S. and allied troop numbers there. "I've been very concerned about an open-ended commitment of increasing numbers of troops for a variety of reasons," he said, "including the size of our footprint in Afghanistan and my worry that the Afghans come to see us as not their partners and allies but as part of their problem." (See pictures of Afghanistan's mean streets...
...That's the reason the Obama Administration is considering doubling the size of Afghanistan's military and national police forces, to roughly 400,000. That's more than triple what U.S. officials had estimated would be needed to defend the country shortly after the U.S. invaded in late 2001. But the beefed up force is needed to battle surging enemies led by the Taliban - scattered by the U.S. in 2001, but who have since returned with a vengeance - and al-Qaeda. The current Afghan military comprises about 90,000 troops, slated to rise to 134,000, while there...
...response to a decline in the value of its endowment, the Institute of Politics submitted proposals for either a five or ten percent reduction in the size of its budget for fiscal year 2010, which will begin on July 1. The Institute’s endowment and budget are both contained within the Harvard Kennedy School. The proposals were drafted after the Kennedy School requested each of its divisions to submit three budgeting options, including one normal budget with no raises for faculty or staff members and contingency plans for five and ten percent reductions. “We don?...