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...under construction on Ground Zero would exhibit a different character. “When you are coming out of the elevator bank, you see trees and also a park,” Maki said. Meanwhile, another side is an “entirely different sort of environment, more vibrant.” Maki ended with the famous words of Roman architect Vitruvius, who wrote that a structure must exhibit the qualities of utilitas, firmitas, venustas—translated as “useful, strong, and beautiful.” But Maki said that by venustas Vitruvius really meant...
...Kabul in 2005. Under Stewart's stewardship, the school has become a substantial development program that provides jobs and has improved the lives of the 700 residents of Murad Khane. "I wouldn't see the point of teaching this stuff unless I thought that it could be a vibrant, living, income-generating project for Afghans," he says. "Because if it was just beautiful Afghan tradition, it may as well just sit in a museum...
...Ward ’05, who is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in theater management and production at the Columbia School of the Arts, draws a more direct connection between Harvard and her career in performing arts.“I think part of the reason Harvard has such a vibrant theater culture is because there is no segregation between someone who considers themselves an artist and who considers themselves a student of something else,” Mangu-Ward says. “I think if you set up a department, that freedom starts to break down...
...concentration of talent and funding in states like New York make it a very attractive area for investigators just beginning research with stem cells.”Daley said he also supported the idea of a merit-based system for distributing state funding. “We have a vibrant private sector here in Massachusetts, where some of the best science is being done,” he said. “We have to remember that the most important goal in funding should be the advancement of science.”Casey said that besides pushing for state funding...
After the Task Force on General Education released its final report earlier this year, we were optimistic about the creation of a vibrant, flexible, and student-friendly general education system that would not merely be the Core version 2.0. Yet the proposed legislation to implement the new system has largely dashed our hopes. By leaving out critical details, the draft legislation has passed the buck to a new committee, the decisions of which could very well leave students with another lackluster and dispiriting general education system.One of the most prominent—and in our view the most important?...