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...group is called “Audrey de Smith and the Elegant Touch” and their lair is as enigmatic as their name. Beanbags are littered with odd electronic equipment, and one wall is adorned with an abstract contraption of small black blocks and string...
...abstract pattern resembling strands of DNA, will be woven into the floor...
...nation continues to debate the death penalty, we should remember that it is not an abstract concept, but a human institution, subject to the problems of all human institutions, including the almost unthinkable possibility for error. We cannot look at the death penalty as distinct from a governmental and judicial system that is, at its best, only human...
...test itself in recent years has had less and less to do with math department curriculum. According to Emeritus Professor of Mathematics Andrew Gleason, a three-time winner of the Putnam and co-author of a book on the competition, the material on the examination has gotten more abstract, moving away from the material directly covered in college classes...
...director whose earlier films - Felicia's Journey, The Sweet Hereafter and Exotica - dealt with more abstract obsessions, Ararat is both personal and political. It premiered last September in Yerevan, Armenia's capital, and was enthusiastically received. The film has not yet been screened in Turkey. But with its scattered releases across Europe, Ararat is enabling a wider audience to explore a trauma that lives on today...