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...Kernahan Burnbach, Germany Your article was interesting and compelling, yet in its final movements missed the point entirely and emphasized one of the underlying problems - you seem to think it should be "cheaper" to be green. The price of not being green is charged in some pretty abstract ways. How, exactly, do you put a price on melting ice caps or thawing tundra? The costs of being green most often come about in what we as a Western, capitalist culture understand best - money. Stephen Van Scoyoc Althorne, England The Enron Verdicts I appreciated the viewpoint column on the Enron verdicts...
...totally to blame. Most of our national leaders, so afraid of losing votes, refuse to ask their constituents to face tough decisions. As a result our stake in America’s future becomes more and more abstract. Its not that we don’t care. We just don’t know what to care about or what our caring will accomplish...
...cave and its health. Lascaux is not an heirloom of French or even Western culture. It is an expression of the earliest experience of being human. The Lascaux discovery in 1940 redefined what was previously known about human beings' creative development and ability to construct images from abstract thought. That critical leap and the resulting tangible evidence are invaluable to understanding global human heritage. Imagine if the great library of Alexandria survived today. How much richer would the world and collective human culture be if we could draw from that vast collection of ancient knowledge? The Lascaux cave...
...They got grades from us, individual members of the faculty helped them out, and they occupied Harvard space,” Vagts said of the 1981 Review. In late March, the faculty committee released its report, stating that although faculty members are “content with the abstract principles of better representation for minorities, [there are] better ways to accomplish the same objectives.”Within a month, and in light of the concerns expressed by faculty and alumni, the Review voted to postpone the implementation of its affirmative action program if the faculty would accept the general...
...awful amusements. In their seven films together--of which a terrific trio (Morocco, Blonde Venus and The Devil Is a Woman) are included here--Sternberg swathed Dietrich's wry sexuality in silk, feathers, a gorilla suit and his camera's soft-focus devotion. As his films got more deliriously abstract, she got restless, and the two parted in 1935. Their legacy is these films: a uniquely frilly and profound record of an artist's obsession with his model...