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...Filipino boxer, clad in a red tracksuit, dashes around the dirt oval despite a painful shin splint. A handful of early-arriving students hang on the chain-link fence surrounding the track and watch him do his work. The Pac-Man is preparing for his March 13 fight against Joshua Clottey, a dangerous but relatively unknown welterweight from Ghana. The $49.95 pay-per-view fight is billed as "The Event" but could easily be called "The Letdown...
...forward. This year, BAF began with a panel discussion about Black Art featuring renowned poet and writer Amiri Baraka, one of the central figures in the Black Arts movement in Harlem during the 1960s. The panel also featured two perspectives from a younger generation—spoken word artist Joshua Bennett and scholar Cameron Leader-Picone, a fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. In defining Black Art, Baraka spoke of his experiences growing up in a segregated society and took an explicitly political stance on what Black Art ought to do: “We create...
History Unearthed I'm surprised you fell for a 3,000-year-old propaganda trick by assuming that the "City of David" was founded by King David [Feb. 8]. It was not; he only conquered it, even the Bible tells us so (2 Samuel 5: 6-9; Joshua 15: 63). Strangely, the last paragraph refers to the city's 6,000-year history and even explicitly mentions the Jebusites who were there before David. That's a bit inconsistent with a founding date of 1,000 B.C. Michael Scharl, VIENNA
...award, given annually to MIT seniors or graduate students, recognizes rising inventors who demonstrate remarkable creativity, a “portfolio of inventiveness,” and potential to mentor future inventors, according to the Lemelson-MIT Program’s executive director Joshua Schuler...
Associate Dean of Harvard College for Student Life Joshua G. McIntosh would not confirm that Lowell will occupy DeWolfe next year, writing in an e-mail last week that “there is really no news to report related to DeWolfe...