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...about a possible monument to its obscure founder, in a waterfront park. Justice at last, you'd think: black artist does black pioneer. But nobody really knows what Du Sable looked like, so a "likeness" of him is out of the question. You'd think that would suit an abstract sculptor, which Puryear basically is. But as Puryear knows only too well, an abstract commemoration of Du Sable would invite the criticism that the pioneer was being reduced, as blacks in Western art so often have been, to a kind of "facelessness," an absence where a strong presence should...
...dead Jews into lampshades." Accommodating to evil is evil. But if this is your line, you had better really, really believe that discarding embryos is just like gassing Jews. That's because if you get your way, then real, fully formed people will suffer and die for your abstract point of principle. In fact, real people will suffer and die as a result of any compromise that partly accommodates your abstract principle. For that matter, real people will suffer and die because of the months every breakthrough has been delayed while Bush looks for a compromise. And because of Clinton...
...Moses drills his students with the same quiet intensity he displayed in the '60s, when he was repeatedly beaten - and nearly killed - but never wavered from his path. He has hit upon a fresh, effective way to teach abstract math concepts. His method begins with physical experience, then moves to pictorial and finally symbolic representation. He teaches about integers by leading students on a tour of civil rights monuments. The kids then draw pictures of the journey and create number lines in which each stop represents an integer, and use them to add and subtract positive and negative numbers...
Moses drills his students with the same quiet intensity he displayed in the '60s, when he was repeatedly beaten--and nearly killed--but never wavered from his path. He has hit upon a fresh, effective way to teach abstract math concepts. His method begins with physical experience, then moves to pictorial and finally symbolic representation. He teaches about integers by leading students on a tour of civil rights monuments. The kids then draw pictures of the journey and create number lines in which each stop represents an integer, and use them to add and subtract positive and negative numbers...
...SUPER BAD www.superbad.com SO BAD IT'S GOOD Thousands of pages of design, abstract games and freaky graphics. Don't worry if it borders on being impenetrable: we can't figure it out, either. But it's a heck of a way to waste time...