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...come down to the economy. Howard and Rudd want voters to remember their names when they think about words like "prosperity" and "future." Unemployment is at 4.5%; inflation seems to be in check, but another rise in interest rates is still possible. "Our economy is not a bunch of abstract statistics," Howard told his Menzies Research Centre audience on Feb. 27. "It governs every Australian's ability to handle the pressures of daily life and to give their children a better life." That's the pitch Australian voters-and the ambitious people of Bennelong-will be hearing until the polls...
...album cover by The Drifters—did her part to demystify the world of postmodern art for those who asked. Speaking about her personal experiences during the psychedelic 1970’s as well as her evolution from minimalism to a postmodern version of abstract expressionism, Heilmann emphasized her connection to both high and low culture. “I started out as a sort of a primary structure, minimal type of artist, and as the years went along, I started to be much more free with my gesture and with my hand,” she said...
...Madison Square Garden scenario is not an abstract threat. In 2003, a British-born Muslim blew himself in front of a nightclub next to the American embassy in Tel Aviv, killing three. A second bomber's device failed to go off. Perhaps more alarmingly, it turns out one of the bombers had worked at Heathrow Airport as a security guard. Only the British authorities can tell us whether he had the capacity to slip a bomb on an American airplane - or help us stop the next British suicide bomber...
...developed and introduced in 1979. Nothing in the new General Education proposal convinces me that within thirty years another revamping won’t be needed. Instead the College needs to foster a return to liberal arts proper—a place where knowledge is not taught to develop abstract modes of inquiry or help one vote and balance a checkbook...
...President Ryan A. Petersen '08 “I hope that the Harvard community will begin to show some serious concern for the fate of the Iraqi students and faculty whose lives are threatened. It is not a matter of abstract sympathy alone; we have it in our power and our immense resources to help in direct, practical ways.” —Cogan University Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt