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...rest of the world might never understand the violence Velupillai Prabhakaran stood for, but its imprint on Sri Lanka is wide and deep. For 26 years, the elusive leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had waged war with the government to win an independent homeland, or eelam, for the island's Tamil minority. The struggle claimed more than 70,000 lives--including, on May 18, Prabhakaran's. The government says he was killed, along with 17 of his trusted lieutenants, while fleeing an army ambush...
...noticed… an evolution of this bright young man from the back-country who cut a wide swath through Harvard, had a superb career as a journalist and wound up as a professor like so many of us,” Darnton said...
...what my wedding is going to be like.’ I was kind of dreading it,” DeCoste-Lopez said one afternoon in the Quincy Grille. “But it turned out to be so much fun,” she continued with a wide smile aimed at Lopez, who was seated next to her. The two were married in the bride’s hometown of Richmond, Ky., on August 23, 2008—a date they said they picked because it was the only one that worked with their schedules of working in their...
...committee’s recommendations for Harvard, which came to be known as the Brown Report, were released in 1955 and stipulated a wide-ranging series of reforms. Comparing Harvard to a number of peer institutions, the committee developed specific plans for the school, from the small-scale name change of the Department of Art History to the ground-breaking call for an increased number of theater courses and a design department. These changes would “give the experience of art its rightful place in liberal education,” wrote Pusey in the report. To accompany...
...made a statement with its forward design, the Carpenter Center was also to provide the necessary space for students in the upcoming Visual Studies program. The building was filled with studios specifically designed for the working artist. The wide windows would provide a soft light for painting, shielded from direct sunlight by concrete breakers. In the exhibition space on the first floor, students could present their work and academics could teach by showing, Sekler described. “It’s the kind of studio space that any creative person can walk into and mess up the canvas...