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...never known democracy, so transformation will take a long time. Putin cannot escape decentralization. Take Chechnya. The only solution is autonomy for the regions. A unitary state with Moscow or St. Petersburg as its capital is utter nonsense. Your latest project is the study of prejudice. Why such an abstract idea? It's not abstract at all. Prejudice is the destructive root of most human conflicts. Conflicts can be sorted out at the conference table or tackled on the battlefield, but you cannot solve them as long as there's prejudice. The humiliation of the Palestinians is a case...
...pieces reflected a wide variety of assignments, from abstract sculptures to charcoal nudes...
...patient. There’s a Christmas story buried in this column, albeit a warped and disturbing and wholly abstract one—a postmodern sketch that differs a fair amount from Frosty, Rudolph and other, more familiar tales. This one involves lawsuits, a beating and Joseph Heller. And Harvard football...
...Movement is not a big part of the piece. It’s about how things frame movement, about how eulogies frame people’s lives.” This from the same man who chin-balances chairs. Well, he acknowledges his theory-heavy concept may be too abstract. “It’s not that the audience is going to get all of this,” he says...
...artsy Halloween party of mega-hipster Meadow F. Zapir ’02-’04, roughly three-quarters of the guests were dressed as penises, and the rest went as tampons, abstract concepts and obscure girl-punk bassists. Most of the guests spent the party wallowing in the nebulous netherworld between irony and sincerity. “I like your costume,” they said to each other honestly or questioningly or insultingly...