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...Histrionics don their Jackson Pollock-inspired "drip" suits for a performance at Melbourne's Australian Centre for the Moving Image this week, there's sure to be an art student or two in the house. And they'll feel quite at home as these self-proclaimed kings of "Concept-Art-Heritage-Rock-Covers" move swiftly through their set. With their razor-witted reinterpretations, AC/DC's '70s classic T.N.T. becomes Nam June Paik, named after the grandfather of video art; Devo's Whip It barely misses a beat as an anthem to Abstract Expressionism, Drip It; while Joan Jett...
...Just a few weeks before the war started, senior U.S. officials were saying publicly that the conflict might be avoided if Saddam and a few dozen of his top henchmen simply left. This concept was never embedded in our war goals. Now, the war having been waged, the United States apparently was saying that thousands of officials around the country would be aggressively removed...
...Strange Loop” reads like a fascinating series of accessible musings, but still successfully argues new, concrete points every step of the way. Hofstadter explains that the human self or “I” is very self-referential, and that any explanation of the concept bends back onto the same concept again. The resulting loop, though, isn’t like most loops caused by self-reference, since there’s no feedback as in a noisy heavy metal performance or an infinite corridor of TV screens on videotape. So consciousness isn?...
Their solution was the creation of autonomous but university-affiliated financial aid entities whose boards would include only the payers of educational costs: parents, alumni, and students. From this concept emerged the student credit union initiative. Successful student credit unions have emerged at the University of Pennsylvania and at Georgetown University. These entities have prospered for over 20 years. Their potential will not be fully realized until they assume their logical mandate of administering student loans independent of the university. Such a financial office would enable the university to recuse itself from administering student loans...
...Central to this principle is his concept of the “positive deviant” in medicine—a person who simply outperforms others in his or her field. It is Gawande’s project in “Better” to understand why some people or institutions in medicine are great while others are just, well, okay...