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...their first date, Barack and Michelle Obama went to the Art Institute of Chicago. Back then it was possible for them to go to a museum without attracting much attention. But when Michelle paid a visit to another museum a few weeks ago, people took note. On May 18, the First Lady traveled to New York City to inaugurate the newly refurbished American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Later she moved on to the city's other Met--the Metropolitan Opera House--to celebrate the opening night of the American Ballet Theatre and speak to the glamorously packed...
CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL: (As translated.) Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen. Here in this place a concentration camp was established in 1937. Not far from here lies Weimar, a place where Germans created wonderful works of art, thereby contributing to European culture and civilization. Not far from that place where once artists, poets, and great minds met, terror, violence, and tyranny reigned over this camp. At the beginning of our joint visit to the Buchenwald memorial the American President and I stood in front of a plaque commemorating all the victims. When you put your hand on the memorial...
...program filled with speeches and song. Families sat on blankets, their snacks laid out on paper plates. Old men stood, chatting, occasionally raising their fists in the air. In the middle of it all stood a miniature replica of a familiar statue, the Goddess of Democracy, which Chinese art students had built - and soldiers later toppled - in Beijing 20 years before. Beneath Hong Kong's Goddess lay flowers to commemorate Tiananmen's dead. (See pictures of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising...
...when Smith hit his second year, the answers came far less easily. The deanship of the Faculty has become “one of the most unenviable jobs in the world,” says History of Art and Architecture Professor Jeffrey F. Hamburger, an outspoken regular at Faculty meetings. With the financial crisis rocking a school accustomed to expansion, it became increasingly clear that cutting coffee and cookies from afternoon meetings would do little to save the strapped FAS budget...
...tenet of the program) in front-of-the-book Gen Ed classes for the next few years because the menu of Gen Ed courses would not otherwise be varied enough to meet student demand next year, Kenen says. Meanwhile, as the Faculty shrinks—part of Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith’s plan to close FAS’ remaining $143 million deficit by reducing “people costs”—the resulting personnel situation makes it less likely that professors will extend themselves, according to several faculty members. ENTRENCHMENTIn...