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...role shift for Japanese Olympians from national ambassador to individual icon is all the more dramatic, given that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the Tokyo Olympics. Back then, an ascendant economic power wanted to show just how spectacularly it had risen from the ashes of war. Japan spent $3 billion on those Games and sprinted past Germany for third place in the gold-medal count. In their patriotic frenzy, most Japanese medalists deferentially linked their victories to the country's remarkable economic rise. Still, the compulsion to reap gold for national honor sometimes proved disastrous...
...CHANGED US: The 40th President redefined how American leaders use power, beginning an era that persists today...
...occasion of the Carpenter Center’s 40th anniversary, which is being celebrated during the 2003-2004 school year through the end of 2004, has given pause to the nature of a landmark building on a constantly evolving campus. This issue is especially germane as the University expands to the north and plans for a new campus in Allston...
...Staff writer Brian D. Goldstein can be reached at bgoldst@fas.harvard.edu. He is the co-curator of “VAC BOS: The Carpenter Center and Le Corbusier’s Synthesis of the Arts,” an exhibition held Spring 2004 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts...
Before he became an assistant professor at Harvard in 1999, Stauffer had earned a undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Duke, where he was ranked 40th in the country in collegiate tennis...