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...would be amazed at the kind of programs that some other schools can put together. Major universities in the Midwest host the likes of M.C. Hammer, Guns N' Roses, Bob Dylan and U2 on their campuses. They turn over their stadiums and concert spaces to agents and collect a percentage of the profits. It doesn't cost them anything except the maintenance of the facility--and students even profit by being able to work major shows...
Occasionally, The Art of Celebration becomes a bit precious, like when Appel asks, "Do the people who collect classic modern plates ever actually use them? Does one's use of the rhetorical question and the impersonal pronoun disguise one's uneasiness with the subject, a fear of sounding effete about dishware? Why doesn't the Design Collection have any beer mugs on display? Is the form art-proof by definition? Is some wine-bound snobbery at work, even in utopia?" But you forgive the prof, `cause, ya know, this education thing is an uphill climb. A spoonful of sugar helps...
...however, castles, like most other buildings in Europe, were made of timber, far from the granite bastions that litter today's imagined Middle Ages. The peasants, meanwhile, were relegated to their simple huts, where everyone -- including the animals -- slept around the hearth. Straw was scattered on the floors to collect scraps as well as human and animal waste. Housecleaning consisted of sweeping out the straw...
Though many of the original staff members left with some bitterness, they continued to collect large sums of money from the Perot campaign even after they departed. In July and August, according to financial documents filed with the Federal Election Commission, the Perot campaign paid Thomas Luce and his company $402,377.47; Hamilton Jordan received $154,872.18; Ed Rollins $97,032.34; James Squires $36,084.40; and John White $22,939.00. Rollins said last week that in addition to the money he had already received, Perot offered him $500,000 not to talk to the press about the campaign. Rollins...
...decision included no fine or penalty against MIT. The Kingsepp case, on the other hand, is a civil action to allow students who were allegedly victimized by the overlap process to collect up to triple damages...