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...time Matisse journeyed to Tahiti in 1930, the transformation was already well underway. While Pacific Islanders had woven pandanus fiber and painted mulberry bark for thousands of years, fashioning ceremonial objects of great spiritual and aesthetic value, these mats and tapa cloths would undergo a revolution with the help of needle and thread brought by missionaries. In Hawaii and Tahiti, appliqu?d quilts (kapa kuiki and tifaifai, respectively) overtook tapa in importance, while to the west sewing was incorporated into the making of fine mats, fringed now with wool rather than feathers, turning these traditional markers of weddings, births and funerals...
...Within the lifetimes of current Harvard students, Europe will undergo a demographic sea change, the myriad effects of which will be as wide-ranging as they are unpredictable. History is, of course, rarely as simple as straight lines of “decline” or “rise,” but I certainly think that Europe’s situation is quite a bit more precarious than the HPR, or many Harvard students, would have it. Whether you agree with me or not, Europe’s future is worth serious thought. The Europe we know today...
...said. “We’ll see how it goes in the next few weeks.” Finance Committee member and Cabot House UC representative Vivien G. Wu ’08 said that there is no set protocol to notify hosts that their party will undergo inspection. Hosts could easily check UC open or others might be notified ahead of time by the investigators themselves, she said. Staff said that the UC wasn’t trying to be “Big Brother.” “I think it?...
...Pearl Harbor bombing and the country’s entry into the Second World War would remind the United States and its citizens of the impossibility of the American bubble, and Harvard would be no exception. The debate over the war foreshadowed the radical transformation that Harvard would undergo after Dec. 7, 1941. By the war’s conclusion, the change would be undeniable: traditionally elitist Harvard would become, more than ever before, concerned with life outside its historically impenetrable shell.THE ORIGINAL STUDENT PEACE MOVEMENT During the late 1930s, debate over the United States’ potential role...
...decision for every show whether he or she can get into the water with a specific whale and whether the animal is ready psychologically and physically for a safe performance. Trainers depend on their long and close relationship with each animal to read their moods. Kasatka is likely to undergo a lengthy period of evaluation, with trainers working backward with records from weeks and months past to figure out what may have led to this incident. (She'd had a minor run-in with Peters about nine years ago.) So while Kasatka is back onstage, her trainers will direct...