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Bahadu, who hails from Detroit, Mich., is no stranger to balancing work and extracurriculars, having run the Dunster Grille, played in countless intramurals and served as Dunster House Committee (HoCo) co-chair in his four years at Harvard...
...Zuckerberg, who has denied the accusations, is no stranger to campus controversy...
...stranger to the Commencement stage. He delivered Harvard’s main Commencement address—the most prestigious speech in the ceremony—in 2000. Even while teaching at Trinity College, he frequently made visits to speak at Harvard...
...brief life. The Jewish Museum show, which was organized by curator Mason Klein, seeks to complicate our understanding of Modigliani. For one thing, it argues that each of his portraits is a signpost of the outsider, that Modigliani's art is the outcome of his position as a stranger in the Paris art world, an Italian and a Sephardic Jew in a France where the air was still poisoned by the Dreyfus affair. ("I am Modigliani, Jew" is how he sometimes introduced himself, especially after he got his first taste of French anti-Semitism.) Even if you don't entirely...
...ruinous." He's like the well-behaved weekend guest of a dotty lord who has refurbished the bedrooms in his country house as torture chambers. But Leth is also a game fellow who realizes, perhaps more quickly than Von Trier, that all art has its rules and that the stranger the rules, the more fun in following and subverting them. Leth's Cuban segment is a suave and colorful abstraction; the cartoon (made in collaboration with Waking Life co-director Bob Sabiston) is a handsomely rendered restatement of his original film. He does so well that Von Trier becomes increasingly...