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...potentially cataclysmic situations involving the global use of energy, Harvard should bring these scholars under one roof by creating a center for energy studies. Once hubs for the confluence of ideas, modern universities have evolved into institutions fragmented by the bureaucracy of school, departmental, and research affiliations. Enter the peculiar institution of the research center, which circumvents arbitrary divisions on the organizational chart. The best example at Harvard is the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, which brings together over twenty schools and research centers across Cambridge and beyond, forcing together scholars who might otherwise not associate with each other by unifying...
...cosmetic considerations were less to the fore in 16th century Europe than they would be four centuries later. Granted, social attitudes toward the repellent aspects of old age were different. And yet it is difficult to look at his numerous drawings of horribly, freakishly ugly old people ... LEONARDO'S PECULIAR AND SADISTIC IMAGINATION IS AT A BIG REMOVE FROM OURS. He is saying, Idealize as much as you want, but shun denial. The necessary other side of the ideal beauty of Leonardo's Mona Lisa or Cecilia Gallerani was the ugliness of his grotesqueries-an ugliness that disintegrates all possibility...
...article entitled “Professors Say this Core is Solid” (news, Oct. 10)? It is the only course the article mentions in the context of the Report on General Education, but there my moment of glory and gratification ends, for the reference is peculiar in conception and short on fact. The course is described, either by the chairman of the history department or by the staff writers, it is not clear, as focusing too closely on aspects of the past that seem relevant to contemporary conflicts; it is strongly hinted that this is an example...
...Warhol. Someone decided to paint a message across this panel. It read: “That’s Right Kids, Andy Warhol was a Fag.”Surprisingly, the incident is not completely unique. Across Cambridge, murals and other public art pieces have recently been subject to peculiar attacks.THE VICTIMSA mural of fish painted on the stucco wall of a pool near Inman Square was defaced with giant white dollar signs. The muralist, Todd McKie, had been commissioned this past summer by the Cambridge Arts Council (CAC) for the purpose of decorating the outer and inner walls...
...ramification of this structure is that the faculty wields tremendous influence, as illustrated by the uproar that led to the resignation of former President Lawrence H. Summers. At a time when faculty-administration relations have been strained, it will be important to have a president who understands the peculiar balance of power at Harvard...