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...many months—of the proposals on the table. The Committee on General Education has done an admirable job grappling with the myriad competing theories of general education, but it seems to have squandered its time this semester when it should have been attempting to put these abstract visions into practical proposals...
...think we need to know a little bit more before we can develop opinions about it,” says Dean of the Social Sciences David Cutler. “In the abstract, it’s hard to say anything—it’s like asking, are you in favor of Harvard having a medical school...
...through a cryptlike corridor, the revving motors and shouts of Israeli Yael Bartana's Kings of the Hill hit you before the work itself: it's a record of teenagers racing old cars up and down Tel Aviv sand dunes well into the night. At times it's almost abstract, with headlights filling the screen and engines roaring. You could read some political message into the struggling cars, as you could into Turk Fikret Atay's Rebels of the Dance, which shows two boys dancing and singing Kurdish folk songs in an ATM booth - or you could just enjoy...
...through a cryptlike corridor, the revving motors and shouts of Israeli Yael Bartana's Kings of the Hill hit you before the work itself: it's a record of teenagers racing old cars up and down Tel Aviv sand dunes well into the night. At times it's almost abstract, with headlights filling the screen and engines roaring. You could read some political message into the struggling cars, as you could into Turk Fikret Atay's Rebels of the Dance, which shows two boys dancing and singing Kurdish folk songs in an ATM booth?or you could just enjoy...
...They like to think that they don’t have to deal with messy things like problems of regional conflict, but regional conflicts have a way of coming back to bite them,” Yalman says. “They prefer to have abstract ideas, but that doesn?...