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...Regardless of what you've seen on TV, theWorld Championship banners and retiredjerseys--which really do hang from therafters--are guaranteed to send a chill down youspine upon first visit to the Garden...
...PAINTINGS ON VIEW IN the exhibitionare unfamiliar even to Americans at home in theworld of canvas and pigment. While the writers andmusicians of the period--Tolstoy, Dostoevsky,Chekhov, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky--have achievedworldwide fame, the visual artists remain largelyunknown outside of the Soviet Union. In the latenineteenth century Russian culture came into itsown, breaking free of the slavish imitation ofwestern norms that had plagued it since Peter theGreat first journeyed across the steppes in the1700s. The efforts of painters to forge a uniqueRussian artistic identity rivaled their literaryand musical counterparts in complexity, sincerityand originality...
...There should be no distinction betweenscholarship and teaching, but we know that's nottrue," Porte said. "There's every reason in theworld why a certain percentage of our faculty areworld class scholars, whether or not they're greatteachers." Porte said that Harvard needs suchscholars to maintain its reputation in theinternational arena of scholarship...
After his college graduation, Charles enteredthe Royal Service and took his seat in the Houseof Lords, embarking on his career in what he hasjokingly called "the oldest profession in theworld...
Horner told the graduating seniors to "workfirst to to comfort the afflicted," who are thoseconfused by their quickly changing position in theworld. Then, she told them, "to afflict thecomfortable," who Horner said were thosecomplacent with the way the world...