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"Eat Art: Joseph Beuys, Dieter Roth, Sonja Alhäuser" October 5 through December 15, 2001 Busch-Reisinger Museum "Eat Art," commands the exhibit, and so we do -- big chunks of popcorn-studded dark chocolate, shards of spun sugar, and a crust of blue-dyed white chocolate, all of which were -- still are -- the disappearing remains of an artwork on display.
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Oh, OpenMail six-point-zero (old version), Your interface may be tired It may be wrinkled, But you are not depreciated. Sleep! Sleep, Friend. A lullaby I sing you, Rocking you in the arms of poesy, Ring-a-ding, bing bing bing. In two years of blissful reciprocity, I have opened you, Yes.
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October has arrived and once again the attention of the sports world has turned to HLS intramural football. There were games on September 30, but the sports world wasn't interested in them, so we turn directly to October 7 and Week 2. In the much anticipated "Game of the Week," once top-ranked Mr.
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From the very first time I heard the new Travis album, The Invisible Band, which was released this past summer on Epic Records, I have been telling anyone who will listen that it is "bottled happiness, burned onto a CD." Not that I was particularly sure what that meant.
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Fenno stepped off of the elevator on the thirtieth floor of the skyscraper. A beautiful, dark wood surrounded him. The reception area of the law firm was completely quiet. He tried to steady the shaking of his hands. Of his forty-eight interviews, this was the only callback that he had received.
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Johnny Depp is the finest actor of his generation, if not the finest actor working today. His performance in the Hughes Brothers thriller "From Hell" allows him to reclaim effortlessly this title, overshadowing more questionable recent career choices and inviting comparison to another bright-eyed master of understatement, whose last great role was alongside Depp in 1995's Dead Man.
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In a discussion intended only for the ears of the Law School community, five professors Thursday night expressed mixed opinions on potential responses to the September 11 attacks and concern over the future of civil liberties in the United States. The panel was organized by J.
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Alternating between soft pleas and impassioned demands, Rev. Jesse Jackson argued Monday for a reorientation of U.S. policy to building relationships with developing nations the U.S. has traditionally shunned. "There's a need for our military, we have that," Jackson said.
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More than 300 people gathered in front of Widener Library last Thursday to condemn calls for American military action against other nations and fight outbreaks of domestic racism. Harvard University students leading the rally, expressed frustration and disappointment with U.
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This summer I lived in East Africa, working for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, thanks to a grant from the Harvard Human Rights Program. I went looking for a life-changing experience, and I found it. Most of my time was spent doing clerkship-like work for the judges of Trial Chamber II in Arusha, Tanzania, but I did spend a week in Rwanda itself tagging along on witness interviews (with victims and low-level perpetrators) and visiting massacre sites.
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In the ideal sense, tenure provides professors with a sense of freedom, their capacity for intellectual inquiry unfettered by academic politics and immune from public controversy. Alan Dershowitz cites tenure as enabling some of his most courageous defenses; in other cases, it allows a professor to take a novel approach in the classroom.
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A recent report by Gary Orfield, co-director of Harvard's Civil Rights Project, reveals that, almost 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education, school segregation is actually increasing. The last decade has witnessed a rollback of almost all the progress made in the two preceding decades.