2009 March April The Soul of Wit
Beyond Academics
The Equity Scholarship Campaign aims to keep Berkeley’s cultural tapestry rich in a time of thin budgets As a girl growing up in Los Angeles, UC Berkeley always held a fascination for me. I loved hearing about the pioneering role it played in the Free Speech and Civil Rights Movements. I even carried an image of […]
Spoken Word
Introducing the curious autobiography of Mark Twain Samuel Clemens—better known as Mark Twain—dictated the passages that follow in the summer of 1906, in a house he was renting in New Hampshire. For some 30 years, off and on, America’s greatest humorist had dabbled at writing his autobiography, putting scraps of it down on paper here and […]
Dining In
The best Last Suppers in Florence. He designed one of Florence’s most notable landmarks, the Ponte Vecchio, which has spanned the Arno River for over 650 years; but close by, one of Taddeo Gaddi’s most dramatic works is hidden away in an ancient convent next to the magnificent church of Santa Croce. Typically, tourists flock to […]
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