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...technique invented by Van Cleef in 1933). Although the client wanted it "for next month," Gautier explained why it would require a year by taking her to the atelier and demonstrating how three teeny rubies might need an entire day to be cut. "After seeing the process, she understood," he says...
...have had many conversations with Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims about the cartoons. The issue of freedom of speech is not well understood by them, but the reasoning behind their outrage does not lack merit. Westerners can claim that we are totally free to print or write anything we wish. That people are offended is assumed to be less important than the right to express oneself in a free society. But am I free to print a pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic article in Germany? Of course not. Ronald Monsen Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
...Harvard veteran accepted the invitation. “The decision did involve a substantial change in the content, direction, and pace of my life,” Bok wrote Monday. “On the other hand, I have a strong sense of loyalty to Harvard, and I understood quite quickly after discussing the situation at the University that this was not an invitation I could conscientiously refuse.” Summers, who will step down from his post on June 30, had informed the Corporation of his intention to resign just three days earlier, leaving the board?...
...times by its actions, at others by inaction, Harvard exudes a confidence that students and faculty who are allowed to make waves there are more likely to make a difference in the world beyond. Sitting thirty years ago in his remote outpost in the Yard, I suspect, Derek Bok understood that. I hope the man or woman the Corporation chooses to take over for him does...
Mackenzie B. Smith ’09, who participated in the event, said she was most impressed that people understood the significance of wearing the t-shirts...