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Riding into Storrs, Conn. with a four-game losing streak in tow, the Harvard women’s hockey team desperately needed a victory against Connecticut to break the slide. Yet for two periods last night, it didn’t appear as if they would get that...
Meyer is just the second president of the Harvard Management Company, having succeeded Walter M. Cabot ’55, who served from the firm’s founding in 1974 through 1990, just as Harvard’s investment returns began to slide...
...that blinks poetry in Morse code while the same poetry is simultaneously displayed on an LCD screen hanging on a nearby wall. Another piece is a looped playback of a recording (found by Evans in the MIT Museum archives) of a man engraving students’ names on their slide rules, and yet another is the original 1960s console from MIT’s first student radio station...
...this show are laden with meanings, and fairly particular ones at that. Take the chandelier, for example. It may seem nonsensical at first, but think about it: a chandelier blinking poetry in Morse code speaks about language, translation and the poignancy of obsolete technology. Likewise, the recording of slide-rule engravings presents us with the ghostly sound of forty year old writing—paradoxically highlighting language’s status as both a visual and sonic medium and questioning its extension through time. And the radio console is half celebratory monument and half nostalgic relic—both...
...color-screen iPod synchs music and photos and comes with up to 60 GB of space to hold both. And it can connect to a TV, so you can add music to your (let's be honest) boring vacation slide shows. apple.com...