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Lectures on distinguished artists are a dime a dozen, particularly at Harvard. But it’s rare for an expert to speak about an artist immediately after the artist herself has spoken. This was exactly what took place at the Harvard Ceramics Studio last Saturday when a lecture by Magdalene Odundo, a distinguished African ceramicist, was followed by History of Art and Architecture and African and African American Studies Professor Suzanne Blier’s talk about the significance of Odundo’s work in the intellectual and artistic community. “I’ve never...
...living arrows are sent forth.”Although his Arabic background is highly emphasized by his followers, to the point of hushing up his Western upbringing—on the back of my copy, George Russel writes, “I do not think the East has spoken with so a beautiful a voice since the Gitanjali”—Gibran does not speak for “the East.” Quite the contrary, he speaks from somewhere in-between, the gray area that is perhaps hardest to define. It is his unique struggle...
...chief of staff before Emanuel actually accepted the job. Some observers expressed frustration that he seemed to be dragging out the first high-profile hire of an incoming Administration whose campaign had been respected for its notable lack of drama; others speculated that Emanuel was torn, because he had spoken openly of wanting to follow Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. But Emanuel's path to the Speakership wasn't guaranteed. More important, his wife and three children live in Chicago. Friends say Emanuel struggled with the idea that he'd have to move his family to Washington...
Obama also said he's spoken with all "living" presidents, joking that "I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances." He must have been taking advice on how to handle the press from those former leaders of the free world, as Obama did his best to make no news. Has he been given pause on any of his foreign policy positions now that he is receiving full intelligence briefings? "I'm going to skip that." Would he still raise taxes on those making more than $250,000 a year...
...Barack Hussein Obama did not win because of the color of his skin. Nor did he win in spite of it. He won because at a very dangerous moment in the life of a still young country, more people than have ever spoken before came together to try to save it. And that was a victory...