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...image of a person grieving expresses a certain rawness, a singular emotional intensity that, strangely, rarely surfaces in images of the 9/11 aftermath. Artists dealing with acts of terror are often content to represent a more general sense of national grief through abstract images, like the photographs of twisted debris that comprise Joel Meyerowitz’s photo-book “Aftermath.” Often, this results in gripping, affective art.But when someone explicitly grieves for a friend who died in the attacks, the moment is special, charged with the weighty energy that comes only with proximity...
...asked to embrace is not that Jesus was God but that he was God-made-man, which is to say, prone to the feelings and doubts and joys and agonies of being human. Jesus himself seemed to make a point of that. He taught in parables rather than in abstract theories. He told stories. He had friends. He got to places late; he misread the actions of others; he wept; he felt disappointment; he asked as many questions as he gave answers; and he was often silent in self-doubt or elusive or afraid...
...gospel of Neen as visitors to Athens were, you can go to www.neen.org and procrastinate with endless hours of animation, video, and philosophy. Perhaps the most famous—and most fun—of these is Manetas’ www.jacksonpollock.org, in which even the biggest skeptic of abstract art can try his hand at splatter painting. —Staff writer Kristina M. Moore can be reached at moore2@fas.harvard.edu...
...gambling curriculum for grades K-12. The program emphasizes rational decision making and an awareness of the incredible odds against winning at casino games and the lottery. Counselors say the problem is that kids are inevitably exposed to gambling before they are developmentally prepared for it. "Younger children lack abstract thinking, so they believe that if they win, it's because they're special or because God loves them," says Brad Tucker, an addiction counselor in Peterborough...
...Yorker article discusses the century-old Poincaré conjecture, which states that all closed three-dimensional abstract topological spaces with no holes are spheres. This has been proven for two dimensions, and for the fourth, fifth, and higher dimensions. But the proof for the third dimension has continued to elude mathematicians...