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...then I considered the potential repercussions of a conviction, and my initial ambivalence towards the fate of the students gave way to trepidation. While certain of MIT’s more famous “hacks” appear to have been staged by students auditioning for MTV’s “Beauty and the Geek,” the “hack” is a time-honored tradition every bit as venerated at MIT as the Harvard-Yale football game is here...
...Friday. “There were some issues with the Science Center and the [server] machines a few hours before the assignment was due, and many people were affected,” Head TF Thomas G. Carriero wrote in a e-mail. “Things appear to be back up and running, so now you can get back to work :-).” While the Science Center was evacuated and firefighters investigated the source of the alarm, police were on the scene for traffic control. Friday’s network troubles marked the second time this academic year that...
...luxury business, a simple silhouette is not necessarily a natural fit. Houses like Gucci and Dior--where the signature is often spelled out in over-the-top details on snakeskin handbags or horse-bit-studded shoes and lavish, Vegas-style embroidery--appear to be allergic to sobriety. Gucci designer Frida Giannini turned to the 1940s and the gunmetal-gray palette of wartime heroines like photographer Lee Miller. For Dior, John Galliano tried on a reverential perspective, paying homage to giant clients like Ava Gardner with beaded satin entrance makers. In both cases, their studied opulence seemed to miss this moment...
...industrially produced objects (i.e. a urinal) to break down the boundaries between “art” and ordinary commodities, Fluxus artists took Duchamp’s idea of the “readymade” one step further, choosing objects that are not mass-produced, but that appear to be: the “multiple.” To accomplish this goal, all Fluxus objects are subtly altered from their industrial counterparts and are personally assembled.It is intention, and not medium, that separates Beuys from the Fluxus camp. This separation is evident immediately upon entering...
Agreements in the Middle East, whether they appear minor or are hailed as breakthroughs, inevitably enter a "prove it" phase, a time when parties must deliver on obligations, uphold promises, and work through thorny questions. That time is now for the Feb. 8 Mecca Agreement that dramatically announced a Palestinian unity government. In Jordan Wednesday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he believed Fatah and its rival organization Hamas could deliver. Some important positions in the new government are basically decided; Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh will remain Prime Minister, for instance. But, Abbas conceded, "there is a lot of work...