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...excitement over the Wollemi started in 1994 when a hiker named David Noble stumbled upon the previously unknown tree while exploring Wollemi National Park, a wilderness area that covers more than a million acres outside Sydney. Experts at Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens pronounced the finding a new genus and decided to keep the trees' location secret, since poachers would value its scarcity and thus commercial value...
...true to the music’s roots in dance forms. Difficult passages in the inner movements were rendered impressively by the three wind players, with especially tasteful work by the bassoonist Kara A. LaMoure ’10. Audience members less familiar with classical music perked up upon hearing the opening bars of Barber’s Adagio for Strings, popularized by the movie “Platoon.” Due perhaps to the tough psychological leap from Bach to Barber or the fact that the tempo was a bit too upbeat, the Barber Adagio was the least...
...swarm of officers and University administrators descended upon the scene, cordoning off the courtyard’s entrance at the corner of DeWolfe and Grant streets. As sirens wailed and curious students looked on, Leverett Masters Ann and Howard Georgi, Associate Dean of Harvard College Judith H. Kidd, Associate Dean of Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson, and HUPD Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley congregated Francis D. “Bud” Riley congregated beside the yellow caution tape...
...Harvard’s painting] is in some ways improved upon in that the eyes are opened wider, the lips smile more, the shape of the ear is changed, and an extra hair swirl is added above the temple. This is just the sort of thing a copyist often does,” she wrote...
...worries as I arrived in Iraq for the first time last week. I had landed at Baghdad International Airport on Tuesday after an early flight from Amman, Jordan, over Iraq's barren western expanses as they caught the day's sunrise. After some visa haggling and a luggage wait upon landing, I was on the road into Baghdad, rolling along the same littered stretch where a friend of mine, aid worker Marla Ruzicka, lost her life to a suicide car bomber in April of 2005. It was a tense 20 minutes or so, but I would later realize the moment...