Word: unknowns
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...guts to admit this, I was also slightly petrified. The ironic thing is that after he told me that he had facebooked everyone in his philosophy class, I found this less creepy and was completely understanding. Why? Because I have also gone through lists of names and facebooked unknown individuals—and don’t lie, you probably have too. Ah, facebook.com, that newfangled pop culture invention created by one of our very own. A tool for—what exactly? Socializing? Connecting to others on campus? Making groups for people with ridiculous interests in common? (I Like...
...serious doubts that a building would fit anywhere. But it did. “Once they decide they’re going to do something,” he says, “they’ll find a spot.”An important and largely unknown fact about the College is its place on the Harvard University food chain. Think bottom feeder. The President’s Office is on top, and beneath it a number of schools, including the Medical School, the Kennedy School, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). Beneath them is the College...
...Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, and the paintings within are a reminder that Renaissance art was heavily religious. But the paintings on the first floor lean toward the secular. One in particular, Ideal City, belongs near the top of any list of great Renaissance works. The painting, by an unknown artist, is a dream of a city so pure and precise that the creator actually left people out of it. The pictures at the overstuffed, overcrowded Uffizi in Florence may be better, but at the Palazzo Ducal you move at your own pace or relax on one of the centuries...
...growing number of senators and commentators question President Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, several of the University’s leading scholars have expressed doubts about the president’s choice, saying that Miers’ views are too unknown and that her legal credentials are lacking...
Tribe’s criticism of Miers’ intellectual gravitas differs greatly from the disparagements she has received from the right, most of which are based on the fact that her views on many critical issues are unknown...