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This time of year, Harvard Yard is covered in stately snow drifts, and the afternoon light makes the steeple on Mem Church gleam against blue winter skies. Blankets of lights hang above Mass. Ave. like starry spider webs. Harvard students, too smart to study, take their dining hall trays for rides down the steps of Widener...
...Harvard Film Archives will show this 2000 German film (with English subtitles) two days before winter break. If the Christmas season has you overdosed with hopefulness, go see this decidedly less-than-optimistic film that provides a grim account of post-Cold War life, with a remarkable central performance by Hannelore Elsner. 7 p.m. Tickets $8; $6 students; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street...
According to the report, a committee that is examining pedagogy will consider the possibility of moving exams before winter break, a proposal in line with a push by Harvard administrators to synchronize schedules University-wide...
...exert its own leverage, both economically and militarily. Moscow has effectively prevented fomer president Shevardnadze from unifying the country by granting Russian citizenship to entire Georgian states on their shared border; and has been known to cut off the nation’s gas supplies in the middle of winter for political reasons when Shevardnadze did not cooperate. And if the economic pressure didn’t get the message across, two Russian “peacekeeping” battalions deployed in the Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions on the Georgian side of the border served as a 723-kilometer...
...leader that he needs to take a more moral approach to these issues—and all we hear about are stem cells? The same goes for the Vatican’s outcries at unilateral action in Iraq which—outside of Christopher Hitchens’ observation last winter that “An awful realization has been dawning upon the Bush White House. Christianity is a religion of peace”—essentially went unnoticed...