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Washington-watchers expect the TPA to pass the Senate by the end of the year. Once enacted, it will create two new entities - the Office of Travel Promotion and the Corporation for Travel Promotion - to help foreign visitors actually get into the country. The offices will serve as resources for...
In the end, Lévi-Strauss is best immortalized by the title of one of his greatest books, “La Pensée Sauvage.” “Pensée” translates literally as “thought,” but in...
Sunday’s opening celebration for The Laboratory will feature exhibitions by current Harvard undergraduates, ranging from a new way to transport water to a program that translates heart beats into music to a way of making electricity from bacteria in dirt.
Describing Gilbert and Sullivan’s works, Fernandez-Barkan praises their lightheartedness and accessibility. “They’re whimsical and wonderful,” she says. Other cast members call Gilbert and Sullivan works absurd, hilarious, and even topsy-turvy. With this enthusiasm for their subject...
But at 140 pages, Roth never gives “The Humbling” any opportunity to be more than an exercise in writing that can be ‘read’ in those various ways. Roth seems to have given no consideration to an emotional center to his...