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...parachute-assisted jump off the top of the Ivory Tower will land us at the base of the mountain of Real Life. Compared to our previous experience, this new climb promises to test fewer skills in greater repetition. College graduates like us—jacks of all trades but masters of none—will narrow our foci, settle into our routines, and begin to climb anew. Maybe all this is why drunken alumni at Harvard-Yale games sputter on about how our college years are the best years of our lives...
...Babel doesn't get its strength from the coincidences. It gets it from characters whose strength of will and heart is put to the test when bad things happen to them. In that sense, the Biblical reference in the movie is not so much to the Tower of Babel, where man's ambition was confounded by an angry God, throwing humanity into a babble of different languages and customs. It's more like the story of Job, who has to keep fighting and trusting as the calamities accumulate. Can't you accept that a movie can work as a parable...
...displays on the bridge's east side map the dark, grimy, industrial face; cross to the west side for the regal and religious. TALKS Head to Southwark Cathedral for the "sermon" by Renzo Piano, co-architect of Paris' Pompidou Center, on the grand design for his London Bridge Tower. Dubbed the "Shard of Glass," it should stand as Europe's tallest building when completed in 2010. Then drop in at the Barbican to hear Rem Koolhaas, a fierce critic of skyscrapers, at the Big Debate on London's soaring skyline. PASSEGGIATA Armed with a bit more knowledge...
...Yunupingu's ceiling is not unlike Aboriginal art itself: a universe of independent but interconnecting movements, each adding luster to the other. With the June 23 opening of the MQB, President Chirac's $278-million monument to non-Western cultures next to the Eiffel Tower on the Seine, the stars would seem to be aligned for Aboriginal art. Yunupingu was one of eight indigenous Australian artists invited to create work for the museum-not to hang on its walls, but rather to be woven through the fabric of Jean Nouvel's visionary architecture. For indigenous art curators Hetti Perkins...
...Head. Corker also said he and the members of the HSA Pub Task Force are negotiating with the Fogg Art Museum to possibly display some of Harvard’s historic artifacts at Queen’s Head. One of these pieces is an original gargoyle from a tower of Memorial Hall which burned down in 1957. The gargoyle landed safely in the snow and was preserved by the Fogg. —Staff writer Doris A. Hernandez can be reached at dahernan@fas.harvard.edu...