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...spans a wide range of media and topics. “The most recent stuff that I’ve been working on is my thesis,” says Camacho. “Basically, what I did is to take objects associated with domestic comfort and take them apart, recreating and re-inscribing them.” To accomplish this, Camacho bought second-hand chairs from the Salvation Army and embroidered excerpts from stories about the supernatural onto their undersides. He subsequently donated the chairs back to the Salvation Army so they could be put back in circulation. When...
...there would be no words. But that can’t happen because of this distance, so they have to use the language to touch each other. The language literally becomes like a caress... CH: The make-out session... LB: But through words, because we have to be held apart and that’s what’s so exciting about it. CH: Once you really take the time to memorize the words and the big monologues, all of a sudden, you’re saying it for the fourth time and it clicks. Suddenly, [you realize] this...
...Apart from his fiery rhetoric, what makes Chavez's move seem more jarring is the fact that, until he came to power in 1999, Venezuela had been a trend-bucking oasis for Big Oil. Venezuela did nationalize its oil industry in 1976, but in the 1990s it had steadily reopened its fields to foreign investment - in some cases handing the multinationals deals that even conservative Venezuelans considered too sweet. Chavez has just as steadily, and stridently, reversed that policy, paring down the multinationals' ownership while ratcheting up their taxes and royalties. And because Venezuela is America's fourth-largest foreign...
Things can fall apart at Harvard. Perhaps you miss a few exams, do poorly on a paper, or run into other unforeseen problems. The paths to perdition are many, but they all lead to the same place: the infamous Administrative Board of Harvard College (Ad Board).Thankfully, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 recently told The Crimson that he hopes to convene a committee to reevaluate the Ad Board and its practices in the near future. We applaud this effort to look at ways to reform the Ad Board, and we hope that the review...
...anarchy have been exacerbated by eight years of drought. In Zimbabwe, relief agencies say President Robert Mugabe's disastrous rule is being overtaken by an even greater catastrophe, a three-month drought that wiped out the maize crop, fueling tensions between government-allied haves and opposition have-nots. Apart from drought, other environmental challenges can prove deadly. A growing number of experts believe the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is best understood as a contest between too many people on too little land...