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Busch-Reisinger Museum. Through Dec. 12. "The Sketchbooks of George Grosz." Exploring the many sides of the former dada activist through more than 80 of his previously unexhibited sketchbooks...
...Darker Shade of Crimson, which debuted two weeks ago, Ruben Navarrette Jr. '89-'90 describes his experiences at Harvard, which range from the arrest of a fellow Mexican-American classmate for armed robbery to the campus response to his questioning of activist Cesar Chavez's ideas...
Among the challengers, we endorse Kathy Born, Anthony Galluccio, John R. Pitkin, James McSweeney, Michael A. Sullivan and Katherine Triantafillou. Kathy Born, an architect and a neighborhood activist, has the experience and intelligence to be a positive force on a council that often must deal with questions about development and public space. She has shown a willingness to speak candidly about the failings of certain city departments such as the election commission and the law department...
Katherine Triantafillou, a lawyer and lesbian activist, will be a voice for equality in a city with a vocal, well-established minority of gays and lesbians. She has already been an effective advocate on domestic partnership benefits and domestic violence issues. She also has fought the MBTA on the high number of fatalities on North Cambridge train tracks...
Interestingly enough, the issue of violence on the news is largely ignored by all but a few activists. (One prominent activist is Barbara Walters, who clearly does not feel that the news need burden us with the vagaries of war or crime so long as a star or Kennedy is around to be interviewed.) This in part betrays the intellectualist biases of the anti-television crusaders. CNN is undoubtedly the most violent network on television, yet its proprietor Ted Turner can, without any irony at all, testify before a Senate Panel about the ills of TV violence...