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...It’s quite possible that Harvard will start to think of the Institute as a place for sabbaticals for their faculty or as a means of recruitment,” she says. “It’s important that Radcliffe not become only the tail that’s wagged by Harvard...
William A.V. Cecil came to Harvard from his native North Carolina after fighting for England during the tail end of the Second World War (his father was British and his mother American). He studied government at the College and, after his undergraduate years, he became an officer at a New York bank and worked both in New York and in Washington, D.C. In 1959, he resigned from the banking world and took up the role of preservationist at the Biltmore Estate in North Caorlina, his familys home. His challenge was to preserve the 250-room Biltmore House and the surrounding...
Superman began life as a kind of populist statement. Created in 1938 by two Jewish colleagues, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, he offered justice for the little guy at the tail end of the Depression and upended the Nazi concept of the Ubermensch. "There was an enormous desire to see social justice, a rectifying of corruption," says DC Comics president Paul Levitz. "Superman was a fulfillment of a pent-up passion for the heroic solution." Batman, a morally ambiguous, revenge-driven crusader, emerged in 1939, at the outset of World War II, as the darker side of the heroic solution...
...with any team, Harvard wants a memorable ending for its seniors, especially Cherry Fu, who will play this weekend after being out for all but the tail end of the regular season...
...muscle for scientists but also produce gasp-inspiring photos for the public. The choice: The so-called Tadpole Galaxy. Earth-based telescopes had captured what appeared to be a galaxy some 420 million light years away that had crossed paths with a dense dwarf galaxy, resulting in a long tail of stars and galactic debris spun off by tidal forces. NASA knew Hubble should be able to show individual stars inside the galaxy, quite a feat at such a distance, about 200 times that of the nearest galaxy to our own Milky Way. It was a conservative choice, though. Visually...