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...Britain was trying to protect the U.K. textile industry." The fabric was impounded, which left poor Mrs. Garrick "weeping like Rachel for her children," as her husband wrote to a friend. She hung the recovered material around a bed designed by Thomas Chippendale. Bed and letter are both on display...
There are occasional challenges to public funding for say, nativity scenes, but by now, most of these symbols of the season have become secularized to the point that they are just part of the holiday backdrop. Nevertheless, those who do not celebrate Christmas occasionally argue that the public display of symbols have religious overtones which limits their enjoyment of these public spaces. The question of how to acknowledge the holiday season without offending anyone’s sensibilities is an annual struggle for students. This year, there has been a controversy broiling over the Leverett House e-mail list about...
...selecting Steiner for the Norton professorship, the search committee lauded his “remarkable fluency in many languages, and his deep learning in the literatures and philosophies of various cultures,” and both qualities were clearly on display last night...
While Harvard needs to be an institution that enables people to practice and even display their religions, it also needs to refrain from establishing religion. House Masters should try to learn from the Hanukkah candle lightings that will take place in each House this year. The menorahs will be in common rooms, they will be set up only for an hour or two each of the days that they are to be lit, and students will be coordinating the religious ritual of their own accord. No student will be forced to choose between eating and being in the same room...
When Mullah Mohammed Omar announced on Feb. 26 that the big Buddhas were to be destroyed, Luis Monreal had a bright idea. Archaeologist, art historian and director of Fundació la Caixa , the cultural foundation in Barcelona sponsored by the Catalan savings bank of that name, Monreal decided to display a side of Afghanistan little known in Europe. In six months, a quarter of the time it normally takes to plan and mount an international exhibition, the Caixa Foundation, in tandem with the Guimet Museum of Asiatic Art in Paris, brought together 230 pieces from U.S. and European museums...