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...find it sickening that a man who has made a "career" out of killing animals, preserving their remains and calling it art is receiving so much attention from the media. This self-obsessed man confesses that his work is all "a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas." His work is not art, and we should not be worshiping a man whose only motivation seems to be to getting attention and money by provoking controversy. Mat Beckwith, Villars, Switzerland
DIED Over a 22-year career, sculptor Tina Allen crafted more than a dozen sculptures, busts and bas-reliefs of black activists and leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, George Washington Carver and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Perhaps her best-known creation was a 13-ft. (4 m) bronze sculpture of Alex Haley, author of the 1976 novel Roots. Allen's art, displayed in public spaces across the country, continues to honor African-American leaders...
...Bomb, but never anything quite like this. In fact, I wonder if the world has ever seen a magazine featuring a nine-page interview with its editor, complete with nude photographs. Questions ranging from what effect the nude spread will have on di Pasquale’s future career prospects to why he chose to mention that his ex-girlfriend thought his “splooge tasted like unripe bananas” are dwarfed by the sheer audacity of the act itself. The immense self-love poured into a full-color magazine essentially produced to display the mind and body...
Although the Wall Street crisis might have job-seekers in a panic, Harvard’s Office of Career Services (OCS) is countering the downturn with a new philosophy and a new interim director, Robin Mount. Many graduating seniors are nervous about the weak economy this year, as there is sure to be a reduction of job openings in the popular finance sector (last year, 20 percent of graduates went on to work in financial services or management consulting ). Fortunately, well before the economy’s recent plunge, OCS had already begun work on this year?...
...This is promising. OCS’s primary job—as they state on their Web site—is to help students “explore and make effective career choices.” OCS does this most effectively when it builds bridges between the students who seek employment and employers from all industries. In the past, many students interested in areas other than finance and consulting have found that, at OCS, such bridges simply do not exist...