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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: The Box of Shadows | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Victoria Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Same As He Ever Was | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...values of free thought, free inquiry, and free speech become more important than ever in times of war and government secrecy. The academy is called to be a haven of freedom, not an ivory tower in Bush’s Fortress America. Let us decide which we will...

Author: By Michael Gould-wartofsky | Title: Beyond Bush’s Harvard | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

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?...

Author: By Alexander J. Dubbs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movin’ On Over | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seidel: Urban Planning Focus | 11/2/2005 | See Source »

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