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Marcel Proust wrote "the idea of popular art...if not actually dangerous seemed to me ridiculous." Locked far away from society in his cork-lined room (why cork? Why not? It blocked out useless sound and probably had a strong enough smell to evoke memories abound), Proust wrote and wrote (and wrote and wrote) about the inanities of modern society, the limitations of "the now," the importance of feeling and experiencing. Proust spent a good chunk of his 51 years (and several thousand pages) observing just how frivolous popular culture was. And yet, 93 years after he began his massive...
...Harvard College students looked to fuel their summer vacation with a simple idea: serve up an off-beat tour of Harvard Yard and the surrounding areas to the visitors that abound in Harvard Square. But as critical e-mails and meetings with University officials flooded in, it became clear that their idea was, at least in Harvard’s eyes, anything but simple...
...president of the Institute of Medicine; Amy Gutmann ’71, now president of the University of Pennsylvania; and the number two candidate, Lee C. Bollinger, who is now president of Columbia.Both Gutmann and Bollinger have said that they intend to stay put.Strong candidates abound at Harvard as well, including Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, who presided over the University’s high-profile diversity initiative last year. Elena Kagan has won over students and faculty at Harvard Law School since her appointment in 2002. And Provost Steven E. Hyman has been an influential force...
...individual contributors have also sought to launch their own blogs using the Kos moniker. Moulitsas is now attempting to protect his identity with a trademark. "Would you call a site ?Texas Michael Moore?? ?Boston Chomsky?? That?s MY NAME." Variations on it - not protected legally, one assumes - abound. Yearly Kos participants raised funds by selling a book about the "Kosmos," and contributors to the site gleefully call themselves "Kossacks." Yet they resist the idea that the community of Daily Kos is a cult of personality. Susan Gardener, one of the elect contributors who can post to the blog's front...
ABROAD VISITS ABOUND...