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...Harvard black community and especially more for males, but we are looking to diversify in terms of audience and gender,” Brown said. Anderson added that the BMF also hopes to eventually reach a high school audience with the magazine. Harvard Black Alumni Society Student Affairs Chair Victoria Shannon ’03, who is also a student at Harvard Law School, commented that the magazine has “a good mix of things that make you think, things that make you laugh, and things that make you want to change the world...
...1960s, a new species of fish, the Nile perch, was introduced in Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest. In the mid-1990s, Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper went to the shores of the lake, in Tanzania, to film how the species, now one of the country’s main exports, had obliterated all others in the lake and even became cannibalistic. In the mid-2000s, the film “Darwin’s Nightmare” opened at the Venice Film Festival, shocked audiences worldwide, and has since been nominated as Best Documentary at the Academy Awards...
...themed for Valentine’s day.“I thought Pub Night was a lot of fun and it was great that the date auction raised so much money. It was really romantic when this one guy put 250 dollars for Hannah Ahn,” said Victoria E. Clark ’08. Following the auction, Orange Crush, an 80’s styled dance party band provided music while revelers danced below Styrofoam hearts and multi-colored lights.Organizers and security involved with Friday’s party strove to make sure that the event was safe...
...away from minimalism towards more voluminous shapes, and the designer (who was studying early 20th century pieces in museum collections) emerged with his own understated form of maximalism. From stage left flew his corsets, crinolines and Mary Poppins coats. It was around this time that the National Gallery of Victoria started thinking of Grant as the potential subject of an exhibition. "His work is about evolution, not revolution," says curator Katie Somerville, who sees in Grant's designs "an uncanny sense of the path that he's on and the things that are important...
Victorian explorer David Livingstone reported the existence of the Victoria Falls back to the West after discovering them in 1855, and the numbers of tourists streaming to visit the "smoke that thunders" have been increasing ever since. Although some folks still prefer to take in the majesty of this geological wonder from the viewing platform, excitement addicts microlight overhead, whitewater raft below or bungee jump betwixt and between. Last summer, 75% of foreign visitors to the falls participated in adventure sports, according to Zambia's National Heritage Conservation Commission. For some of these thrill seekers, the falls aren't even...