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...exhibit, on display until Sept. 7, features 72 works of East Asian Buddhist art with strikingly uniform subject matter. “We aimed to present a comprehensive overview of Buddhist art from China, Korea and Japan over a period of one thousand years,” said the exhibit’s curator, Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Robert D. Mowry...
...Birthplace of Democracy. If you thought that was Greece or Massachusetts, you’re mistaken; Harvard predates them both. Here is liberty of speech in its purest form: the idea without consequence. Unhampered by censorship or taboo, we have little incentive to restrain ourselves, and a thousand petty flowers bloom...
...right now that I have the utmost respect for the folks at 8 Garden Street in Byerly Hall who annually undergo the Sisyphean and, often, thankless task of telling nearly 20 thousand of the country’s best high school seniors that they are not good enough to come to Harvard. I think they do about as good a job as humanly possible selecting the right people to admit—but like all human beings, the admissions officers do make the occasional mistake, each year admitting—through no fault of their own—a small...
...plot and swept up in righteous determination, dutiful loyalty and terrifying excitement. He scouts targets, assesses their vulnerability and helps plant the devices. But Khan is eventually abandoned by his cohorts, left penniless and finally captured. Such portraits reveal more about the roots of terrorism than a thousand theories about the clash of civilizations could. As the U.S. deploys its full military might against Iraq in the face of almost unanimous hostility from the Muslim world, Zaidi's book stands as a timely reminder of how, in the hands of a few men, revenge can throw a nation into panic...
...Harvard students, the path to “veritas” is a matter of numbers. All that stands between a Harvard student and a degree is a few thousand hours of extracurricular activities, several hundred pages of papers, 32 classes-worth of passing grades and one $160,000 bequest to mother Harvard, paid in four easy installments. However, in the new ABC action-drama, “Veritas: The Quest,” the path to veritas follows no such simple script. The show chronicles the adventures of prep-school dropout Nikko Zond, who discovers that his father...