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...most significant difference in the Harvard program during Kerrs short tenure involves the improvements in the recruiting system. With an experienced and world-class coaching staff, Kerr has been able to attract quality players from all over the globe...
Harvard has always prided itself on having a world-class collection of art. From Alexander the Great’s coins to Chinese jades and Durer’s prints, Harvard’s museums presume to showcase the world?...
Winemakers from as far as Australia and as near as the Napa Valley are discovering what the pioneers have always known: the fertile soils and varied micro-climates from Monterey to Santa Barbara are capable of producing world-class wines--at consumer-friendly prices...
...generation, and ever since his first, unremarked novel Grimus, he has exercised his talent judiciously and to devastating effect. Although he has been writing for 20 years, this is only his eighth novel, and he has received many of the highest literary honors in the world. His first world-class novel, Midnight’s Children, won the “Booker of Bookers” prize and established his teeming, magical and mythological style, which somehow never lost its sense of intimacy, nor its intense invocation of place. Seldom has a city been so strongly, affectionately and vividly portrayed...
...problems aren't limited to politics and the economy. Hong Kong's seven well-funded universities have failed to do their job in helping to develop the territory into a creative city. No metropolis ever became important without world-class academic institutions. Consider the City University of Hong Kong. Earlier this year when one of its professors, Li Shaomin, disappeared into a Chinese jail on trumped-up spy charges, Chang Hsin-kang, City University president, refused to extend any help even as some 600 scholars and colleagues of Li's around the world signed a petition calling for a fair...