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...Renaissance historian Bernard Berenson, Class of 1887, bequeathed his Italian estate at Villa I Tatti and library collections to his alma mater. The villa now houses the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy, as well as Berenson’s 130,000 volumes and more than 300,000 photographs...
...University never considered opening centers modeled on the opulent Italian villa. And other early efforts at internationalization also failed to provide a successful model. A 1973 Harvard Business School educational program in Switzerland fell by the wayside due to lack of enthusiasm, and the Harvard Institute for International Development became embroiled in controversy due to an investment scandal in Russia surrounding Harvard economics professor Andrei Shleifer...
...every century there are certain buildings that are conceived and executed purposely to change the course of architectural history. This is what Horace Walpole had in mind with Strawberry Hill, his 18th century faux-medieval villa on the outskirts of London that defied the Neoclassical consensus of his time and triggered the Gothic Revival. It was what Le Corbusier set out to do with the Villa Savoie, the landmark Modernist house. Libeskind, 61, who spent much of his early career as an architectural theoretician and teacher, routinely operates at the same level of ambition. With his most important projects...
...after the young Czech paparazzo Dalibor Puchta was memorably arrested after trying to photograph Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie from a garage near the sleek villa the couple had rented in Prague, neighbors are out indulging their evening routines...
...Venezuelan media report that Villa del Cine is also planning to produce a film version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's historical novel about South American independence hero Simon Bolivar, The General in His Labyrinth. Meanwhile, critics are denouncing Chavez's move to revoke RCTV's license as another Castro-style authoritarian step to snuff out freedom of expression, following recent legislation that criminalizes slander against public officials. Chavez's backers insist that Venezuela is still replete with privately owned media that openly criticize him, and argue that his move against RCTV is justified because the network openly backed a failed...