Word: approaches
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...traditionally associated with commercial projects such as Operating Systems and mission-critical servers"--that is, the core of Bill Gates' monopoly power. The memos, written by senior engineers, conclude that Microsoft must "decommoditize" (which is to say, lock up and crush) the open standards set through the open-source approach. "FUD tactics can not be used to combat...
Opened in 1983 by a British-born feminist theologian named Edwina Gately, Genesis House is one of just a handful of U.S. recovery centers for prostitutes. As social-service and law-enforcement agencies have learned about its success rate and unusual approach in dealing with seemingly intractable clients, it has become a model for similar programs from Florida to Thailand. Nonetheless, just when it has so much to crow about, Genesis House finds itself in financial jeopardy. The loss of half a million dollars in federal funds this year has forced the agency into an unexpected scramble to maintain...
Coupling commercial techno-kitsch with the masterworks of Van Gogh and Picasso is like crossing the book Private Parts by Howard Stern with the Civil War diaries of Mary Chestnut. Thank you, Vegas, for your attempts at high art, but no thanks. A Warholian approach might have been more fitting. DOUG HATCH Madison...
Students say a multi-media approach to visual art is uncommon in the VES department's offerings this year. Reichek, a New York City-based artist, requires students to find their own materials and allots each a budget of $250 to purchase them. For a recent "Trash as Art" project, Reichek showed slides and spoke about what contemporary artists have done in terms of turning refuse into art. She equipped students with reading selections and questions about the meaning of 'trash,' then sent them off to work on projects of their...
...approach the end of the "Great American Century," it is inevitable that memories will fade and familial links will pass from this earth. In times of a calm global political environment, complacency will be accepted and isolationism will be embraced even as defense budgets remain cushy...