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...course, Harvard’s administrators should try to respect student opinions—it would be impossible for the College to accomplish its mission of fostering academic and personal growth if faculty and administration failed to respond to any student concerns. But when administrators make unpopular decisions, it is foolish to complain of student “rights” being violated: Such rights never existed in the first place. The idea that a student must approve of all decisions made regarding his welfare is a fallacy born of a lifetime’s exposure to a culture that...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: This is Autocracy! | 10/15/2007 | See Source »

...definitions of work, home and leisure, we are less likely to feel stressed out about the blurred lines." Just as work has become integrated into our home and leisure, "we can integrate home and leisure into our work. Time can be a single powerful resource that we use to accomplish our goals and dreams, regardless of where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 10/11/2007 | See Source »

...enemy. With compassion for the newly sober under-agers roaming the campus (hi Dean Pilbeam!), FM decided to take one for the metaphorical “team” and follow the wise adage: “keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” To accomplish this mission, we approached some of the Square’s most notorious bouncers to learn the tricks of the trade. FM first visited the oft-frequented Hong Kong Restaurant, best known for acid-colored scorpion bowls and its close scrutiny of all who enter. Travis, 23, has bounced...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bouncing in the Square | 10/10/2007 | See Source »

...consuming spectacles of our time-TV, video, computer games-so he would rather not turn into a spectacle himself. His ambition is not just to delight people but also to awaken them out of a passive relation to the world. Whether this is a job mere art can accomplish remains to be seen. But it helps to explain why Eliasson has given quite a few of his works titles with the word your in them. So, for instance, when he hung the Palazzo Grassi in Venice with a web of light cables, he called it Your wave is. "It emphasizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet Your Maker | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...woman, shot by Oliviero Toscani, the eternal enfant terrible of fashion photography, Nolita's is the latest attempt to employ a formula that Toscani helped invent with Benetton in the 1980s: the use of provocative, socially conscious images to help hawk products. (And, in theory, the images attempt to accomplish the inverse as well: using consumerism to try to raise public awareness.) In the past, Toscani has used photographs of AIDS victims and death-row inmates in Benetton ads. But this time, the message is also targeted at the very industry that is selling the goods. The problem of eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Furor Over an Anorexia Ad | 9/28/2007 | See Source »

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