Word: transformers
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...motifs of Hawaii, which resonate powerfully with "echo" quilting, and the psychedelic patchwork technique of taorei, from the Cook Islands, to the elaborate appliqu?s of French Polynesia, which make Matisse's cut-outs look like child's play. But it is the threading through of more personal visions that transform these tapestries into serenely subversive artistic statements. When Englishman John Williams brought Christianity to Samoa in 1830, he could not have imagined the extent to which it would become enmeshed in the complex weave of Samoan society. Laupule Poutasi's fala su'i captures this perfectly. In this woven heirloom...
...newly created Mind, Brain, and Behavior program, one of the five inter-faculty initiatives started by then-University President Neil L. Rudenstein. When Hyman returned to Harvard in 2001 to serve as chief academic officer, appointed by then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, he set out to transform the provostship into a driving force for interdisciplinary reform. Taking office “with an understanding that the job was going to change,” Hyman told The Crimson, “I understood we were...going to expand far beyond Neil Rudenstine’s five initial cross-disciplinary...
...strategy advocated by the Baker-Hamilton group looks, if not quite dead on arrival, at least destined for the back burner. But that regional strategy is a critical component of the package, precisely because the Iraq Study Group has plainly shown that the Bush Administration's plan to unilaterally transform the Middle East through the application of force has failed. Acting alone, the U.S. appears unable to create a stable post-Saddam Iraq, and regional cooperation with regimes distasteful to the U.S. but nonetheless able to influence events is essential...
...catalyst for our "Newspaper Next" project, which we started a little more than a year ago, was our 60th anniversary. It occurred to us that there wouldn't be a 70th anniversary if the industry that conceived and supports us didn't transform. We have crafted what we call the game plan for newspapers, to transform the industry in the next three years and beyond. The newspaper industry is about a $76 billion industry and about $7 billion is invested just in the news product. It's my firm belief that everything else out there -- network TV, local...
...because they believe in the promise of a Harvard that is truly great. They share a vision for a community that is greater than the Harvard of today: one that is a rich, engaging, inspiring, healthy, and inclusive Harvard that will not only reward its own students, but positively transform the world we are commissioned to lead. They will dedicate themselves, and we will be better because...