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...singing the Hebrew blessings and screwing a flame-colored bulb into a plastic candelabrum sitting on my dresser, as Harvard advises, doesn't really complete the ritual for me. Some years, my family has packed a menorah and candles on overseas vacations because the practice of lighting it is so religiously symbolic and important to us. Christmas lights and trees, on the other hand, are traditional but not mandated by Christian teaching. They are pretty and sentimental but without direct religious symbolism...
...prospect of putting one's life in the hands of a plastic board--not to mention the pictures on HUSC's Web site of members flying through the air--can be daunting to prospective members. But current members say inclusiveness is the name of the game...
Then I tried to set up the system and entered AirPort hell--the Mac equivalent of spending the night on a plastic seat at J.F.K. The AirPort software made both the iBook and my brand-new iMac crash repeatedly. On the rare occasions they recognized the presence of the base station, both machines obstinately refused to connect...
...basement of the museum, cold storage is not only a repository for the leftover masterpieces of the Fogg's ever-burgeoning collection, but is also the surrogate home of Mark Rothko's mythical Harvard murals. Unlike its fellow occupants, the Rothko murals, wrapped twice over in heavy, light-blocking plastic, have emerged only two times for public view, once in 1988 and more recently in 1993, since their initial storage in 1979 in the Busch-Reisinger Museum...
...Which leads us back to the present: Standing in front of Panel #2, the only uncovered, respiring portion of the series, the other four hang frozen beside and behind it, shourded in plastic. Panel #2's current blue hues look somewhat dolorous. But Ms. Cohn offers assurance "that the ensemble as a whole still works" even if some unity is lost with the fading. "They still have the solemn resonance that Rothko wanted. A very inspiring ensemble still. Yes, they are damaged, but no, they are not wrecked...