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...huge disconnect between the community of Allston and Harvard,” he added. The 74-page master plan, which broadly outlines Harvard’s activities in Allston for the next 50 years, calls for the construction of a four-building science complex, an art museum, and the rerouting of several roads in the area. Harvard Director of Communications Kevin M. McCluskey ’76 justified the vagueness of the report by pointing to the unique needs of an academic institution. “The planning for a campus begins with academic program planning...
...three paintings attributed to Jackson Pollock, Harvard researchers reported this week. But the canvasses are still slated to go up for exhibition at Boston College this fall. Using scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and a slew of other state-of-the-art techniques, scholars at the Harvard University Art Museums found materials in the paintings that were not available until years after Pollock died. The analysis revealed that one of the three paintings includes a brown pigment that was not created until the early 1980s and not available on the market until 1986. Pollock died in 1956. The other...
...space of a two-and-a-half minute trailer for his 2006 film “Night in the Museum,” actor Ben Stiller contends with an agitated T-Rex skeleton, a belching sea beast, a flaming projectile launched from a diorama catapult, and a horde of rampaging Huns...
...Zoolander” (2001), and “Dodgeball” (2004)—movies in which he starred as a hapless fiancée, an ego-stricken supermodel, and a fat man turned fitness guru, respectively. His most recent film, “Night in the Museum,” has grossed almost $210 million in the five weeks since its release...
...presence of the coffee chain there was ?eroding Chinese culture,? Rui wrote. It would be like having a Starbucks in the Louvre or at the Pyramids or the Taj Mahal, he later told a reporter. (There is a Starbucks next to the Louvre, though not actually inside the museum. And the reasons there aren't any Starbucks in Egypt or India are pretty obvious: no one can afford to buy the coffee...