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What all this means is that the Academy doesn't contain the world of nature; it's penetrated by it. That's a good metaphor for the cooperative dealings with the environment that Piano wants his building to symbolize. He sees the project as a step toward developing what he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King of the Hill | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

This may spring from political bias, but I tend to think McCain did far worse than he could even imagine, all before opening his mouth. I watched the debate distractedly and intermittently (as, I imagine, many American voters did), and thus my conclusion about the affair could only be an...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Skin Deep | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

When anthropologists observe cultures, they oftentimes choose a particularly unique social phenomenon that allows a glimpse into that culture’s canon of values: a Balinese cockfight, for example, or a Pueblo rain dance. These are the times when a people’s deepest shared emotions are on...

Author: By Garrett G.D. Nelson | Title: Postering in the Ethnographic Gaze | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

Traditional favorite Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice” won gold again as the College’s most popular class, but the three most popular undergraduate courses all registered drops in enrollment. The number of students taking “Justice” fell from 1,115...

Author: By Weiqi Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Usual Favorites Top Course Offering | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

If winning Best Picture at last year’s Academy Awards for “No Country for Old Men” made Joel and Ethan Coen anxious about producing a worthy follow-up, you wouldn’t know it. Their latest effort, “Burn After...

Author: By Claire J. Saffitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Burn After Reading | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

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