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...familiar and unique. There’s the Harvard of yore—Harvard freshman dormitories filled with revolutionary war soldiers and tutors beating students for not reciting Latin correctly. But from modern scenes in Emerson 105 to over-chipper Crimson Key tour guides in the yard, Martin captures present-day Harvard College exactly as a student might describe...
...almost 34 years later, Kerry’s remarks on American military and intelligence operations vastly diverge from opinions expressed by the present-day Sen. John F. Kerry, D.-Mass., the leading candidate in the Democratic primary for president...
...skilled scientific sleuth who wields the most powerful tools of modern chemistry in his search for the roots of ancient wines. In 1996, for example, his lab created a stir by finding dried traces of wine in 7,500-year-old jugs that hailed from the Zagros Mountains of present-day Iran. A few years later his lab identified some of the key constituents in a funerary feast held in about 700 B.C. in honor, some think, of King Midas. The feast, as re-enacted at a gala hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Museum, included a modern re-creation...
What a joy it was to read "10 Questions for Walter Cronkite" [Nov. 3]! How we miss him! How often we reminisce about his years on television, his sincere reporting style, without the nonsense of present-day newspeople who talk on top of one another, laugh at nothing and perform like actors. Today's news programs are unabashed competition for ratings. As Cronkite admitted in the interview, he retired too soon. JACQUELINE MARTIN Kerrville, Texas...
...With its light purple background and a big tropical flower blooming from its bottom corner, it was clear to me that Harvard’s production of this cheesy 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical would be a conventionally warm and fuzzy staging. The setting had not been moved to present-day Iraq, nor had the show’s naïve optimism been turned into an any sort of ironic post-modernist commentary...