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Just two years after his inauguration, former University President Lawrence H. Summers penned a 5800 word letter to the Harvard community that left no doubt about what sort of a mark he intended to make: Harvard would build itself into an unparalleled center of interdisciplinary research, and it would do so by undergoing an unprecedented expansion. Thrust into prominence as the canvas for the University’s grand vision was the neighboring community of Allston—a city once dominated by railroad stockyards and cattle slaughterhouses that now bore the weight of a new president?...
...Harvard/Yale-Oxford/Cambridge meet is the world’s oldest continuing international intercollegiate competition, dating back to 1894. The two countries involved trade off hosting each other, and this year, the four teams headed off to New Haven, Conn., for the historical event. “There’s sort of one word that sums it up and that’s tradition,” Harvard coach Jason Saretsky said. “There’s a tremendous amount of tradition and history with this meet. This Friday shaped up to be another great competition. I was really...
...survival derives from its credibility, and its credibility, after more than 30 years, derives from its sense of iconoclasm. The underground history of punk is rife with bands that barely have any history at all; “true” punk musicians, to this day, revert to a sort of self-destructive loop of formation-creation-disbandment to avoid unwanted attention and the anathema of a “signature sound.” The idea of success is alien to punk rock, and simply not present in the lexicon. Bands that move forward—either creatively...
...themselves artists are still hesitant to completely accept the art-technology chimera.“Technology is appealing in an uncomfortable way,” says Rice. “But art is weird, and if something’s good it has to make you uncomfortable in some sort of way. There has to be something off about it in a controlled and intentional way.”“It can’t just reinforce the world,” he continues. “It has to draw out nuances of the world. So having...
...strong language used by Obama struck some observers as the sort of black-and-white rhetoric he usually avoids - and that his predecessor had embraced. Many Catholics, including New York Times columnist Peter Steinfels, embraced the critique leveled by Slate writer William Saletan (a non-Catholic). "Proponents of embryo research are insisting that because we're in a life-and-death struggle - in this case, a scientific struggle - anyone who impedes that struggle by renouncing effective tools is irrational and irresponsible," wrote Saletan. "The war on disease is like the war on terror. Either you're with science...