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...museum, which is privately financed, occupies less than two-thirds of the grounds of the former building, returning two acres to the park. The public is admitted free to some of it, including the sculpture garden by landscape designer Walter Hood and the observation floor of the 144-ft. tower, with its supreme views of San Francisco...
There's an obvious political spin to that caricature--recall the 2004 election, when the Bush campaign positioned itself against ivory-tower liberal élites. Colbert's persona has a conservative bent: in his words, he's a reflexive "Blame America last-er" and has a dog named Gipper. But Colbert is also spoofing the general trend in news to pander to emotion, to value graphics over thinking, gut over brain. "That, I think, is the nutmeat of the show," he tells me. "Enough mind. We tried mind for a long time, and what has it gotten us? You know...
...doubt about it, West has a penchant for populism, and he seems to carry none of the ivory tower pretensions some of his colleagues tend to champion...
Three weeks ago, two multi-story houses behind Leverett Towers were air-jacked off their original foundation, placed on wheels, rotated 180 degrees, attached to a truck, and pulled onto a new foundation—at their new address, roughly 50 feet away. While anything that stands in the path of Fair Harvard’s construction tends to bite the dust, these two houses were redeemed due to their apparent historic significance to the city of Cambridge. Graduate housing is slated to replace them in 2007. Leverett residents wonder why the gray and blue buildings were protected; even Harvard?...
...Roman republic, he says, created in him a “sense of commitment to the public good and public service.” By the time he came to Cambridge to attend the Graduate School of Design in 1999, he planned to bring his experience in the ivory tower into the public arena...