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...failure of professors to venture outside their small sphere of expertise in classes is indicative of a far more wide-ranging mindset that paralyzes the intellectual endeavors on this campus. By and large, scientists hole themselves up in laboratories near Divinity Avenue, rarely see the light of day, and seldom interact with the rest of campus. Humanists pace the halls of the Barker Center wrapped in their black peacoats, entering into dialogue with their colleagues and the people on the walls but rarely with their friends in the Science Center. Each department occupies its own little satrap, an armored enclave...
...Caucasus politics and allies it firmly with a leader, Georgia's Eduard Shevardnadze, whose grip on power has weakened dramatically in recent years--and who remains high on Russian President Vladimir Putin's list of least favorite people. Putin, who views Georgia as being firmly within Russia's sphere of influence, has publicly offered support for the U.S. action. But he claimed, reproachfully, that Washington did not inform him in advance. Then his lieutenants put in the knife: a gas concern closely linked to the Kremlin announced it would suspend fuel supplies to the Georgian capital Tbilisi...
...students with interests in queer studies there is no structure to support them and no funding. It is very important that we have space set aside in the academic sphere for this,” he says...
...Fauves were followed by the Cubists, led by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who deconstructed the basic sphere, cylinder, cone and cube that learner artists were set to copy. They broke apart these simple solids to construct ambiguous images that appear to emerge from the canvas or flatten out like a collapsing card-house. Their rather dry theories were gleefully hijacked by others and transformed into still lives, portraits, street and café scenes. Cubist angles form the background to Russian Marc Chagall's Paris through the Window of 1913 and even become a pair of frilly panties in Italian...
...shocker: just two quiet and decorous “not guilty” pleas. From my vantage point in the second row on the left, when they rose to face the music, the dramatic duo barely exchanged glances. They may not be friends anymore, but in at least one sphere, they can never be separated again. Randy-and-Suzanne. Suzanne-and-Randy. Those names now twinned forever in Harvard College gossip...