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...woman, Julie Rattey, not to make any specific feminist point but because she's good. And since the character is written pretty much sexless and supposedly died several thousand years ago, who cares? Stage designer Josh Goldston '01 is creating an atmosphere of ruin and decay within the context of an archaeological excavation. It seems fitting, seeing as Hudson probably had to initiate an excavation of his own just in order to find this play...
...possibilities - not a surprise, because he was well known as an expert on the classification of swords, whose scabbards and other fittings were always adorned with lacquer. Clearly too he liked innovations in technique that may seem small to us but, in the tradition-bound and slow-moving context of Japanese art and design, were quite significant. One was the near alchemical contrast of dull lead inlay and bright gold detail on black lacquer in works like the beautiful writing box named Ashibune, or "Reed Boat...
...overarching concern of the leadership in Beijing is that economic liberalization threatens to plunge tens of millions of people into unemployment as decrepit state-owned industries collapse in the face of competition. China can?t afford the social safety net to absorb those unemployed people, and in the context of a social upheaval on the scale of Europe?s industrial revolution, they?re perceived as a mortal threat to the very survival of the Chinese state. It?s that thinking that has driven the crackdown on the Falun Gong religious sect over the past 18 months. Despite the group...
...part, CID operates, along with countless other centers at the University, at the crucial points of intersect between teaching, research and policy. In this context, your protest against University "institutions that...have a distinctly non-academic purpose" seems to imply that you believe Harvard should strive to be more of an ivory tower. A novel position, certainly...
Seeing themselves in this new context seems to help many of the Baraka kids redirect their lives. Kevin Prem, now 15, joined a gang when he was only 10. By the time he was 12, his two older brothers and nine of his friends had dropped out of school. At Baraka, though, Kevin got his temper under control and won five awards for academic excellence. Now he plans to be a prosecuting attorney, so he can put in jail "people who sell drugs to kids." Daryl Stewart, now 16, had been kicked out of six schools before going to Baraka...