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...from their homes over the break to submit to the show. The show is unconventional in that all of the profits of each work will go to the respective artist; the show’s organizers will not collect commissions off the sales. The selection committee, however, will specifically chose 20 pieces for a silent auction and 20 percent of their profits will go to maintaining the show in the years to come.Though clichéd college posters will continue to stake their territory on student walls, these glossy sheets may now have to share that turf with original student...
...cautions that the book's title is a bit of a ruse. "To be frank, those words in the title Unhappy China are just for the purpose of promoting the book in the marketplace," he says. "We didn't choose them. It was the people selling the book who chose the title, because it would sell well." If they could chose a title, Wang says it would have been China's Goals for the Next 30 Years or something similar. But who would want to read that...
...Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic.” Menand introduced Hale’s story with a speech on the elements of a great story, drawing upon examples from writers like John Updike, James Joyce, and O. Henry, He told the audience that he chose her piece because it embodied the abstract quality that Joyce called the “whatness of a thing” which is the ability to give the reader “a pang, a shiver, a dip.” “When I was reading Kathleen’s story...
...Instead, the Pope chose to favor the letter of his philosophy over a smooth p.r. ride. Again. As with the recent controversy when he lifted the excommunication of four ultra-traditionalist bishops, including a Holocaust denier, Benedict plowed ahead with what he believed was the right thing to do, even if it brought a maelstrom of bad press. In this case, Benedict believes that condom use is part of a culture of promiscuity that is breaking down the traditional family, which in turn feeds the kind of behavior that spreads the HIV virus. (See pictures of the global fight against...
...Caboteers convince themselves on Housing Day that the mythic spatial bounty of Cabot’s rooms will amply compensate for the erstwhile frustration of Quad life. In reality, it’s those (rare) days spent sunning in the yard that make it okay that the River deities chose not to smile on your blocking group...