Word: arco
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...Monday Nov. 30 the ARCO Forum hosted its most heavily attended event of this year: a speech by George Soros called "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered." With over 700 people in attendance, security had to shut down the building 15 minutes into Soros' speech in order to prevent more people from packing into the overflowing room...
...change this? Soros points the finger back at us. "The initiative must come from those people and those countries which have been successful in the global competition," he told the ARCO crowd...
...panel discussion held Tuesday night at the Arco Forum entitled, "Images and Coverage of African Americans in the Media," talk show host Montel Williams recounted the warnings of program managers that "a bald black man on TV" would not work in their cities...
...moment I heard Camille Paglia say that "poststructuralism is a form of child abuse" during her speech on education reform at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum last Tuesday, I knew I had heard one of several ready-made soundbites that would surely appear in the next morning's paper. Another striking moment came when she said, nonchalantly, that today's Ivy League graduates are nothing more than "little blind gnomes," two generations of students who have been crippled by postmodern professors. Her cause was the preservation of art and facts, as well as the restoration of grandeur to teaching...
Camille Paglia, a frequent critic of some of Harvard's most eminent humanities professors, decried the state of education last night before a standing-room-only audience at the Kennedy School's ARCO Forum...