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...distracting, disgusting and--although it'll betray my age--disrespectful," says Eileen McAvoy Boylen, 54, a Boston-area marketing executive, of the way young workers dress. Liz Dean, 21, a Mount Holyoke graduate about to join Teach for America, views office attire differently. "Nobody my age wants to conform," she says...
...Noida murders also reveal deeper flaws in Indian policing and the country's media. Critics have renewed calls for the press to conform to proposed legislation that would regulate journalistic standards, a bill the media has fought. Some experts hope that public outrage over the conduct of the investigation will build and ensure that the case gets transferred to India's Central Bureau of Investigation, which is expected to do a better job than the police. In the long run, India's police will need to clean up its act. However it is resolved, the Noida investigation could well...
...citizens. We are taught to follow rules all the time and it is really hard to see out of that box. For me, I am lucky because I was born outside of Singapore, so I can see the box really clearly. As an artist, I don't have to conform. But a lot of my friends don't see the box. I have a lot of friends who were artists with me back in my secondary school days, and they are all doctors, engineers and teachers. A lot of them have become bankers and stuff like that, giving up their...
Although Lampoon members have a reputation for being obnoxious and over-the-top, James A. Powers ’08, a soft-spoken Irishman, does not conform to stereotypes. Powers has illustrated covers for the Lampoon and drawn cartoons for The Crimson, but painting is where his passion lies. His work for the Lampoon is one of his proudest achievements at Harvard, but Powers enjoys painting because his work doesn’t have to fit into a niche. While growing up, Powers drew lots of comic strips, with Tintin as an early inspiration. But with his arrival at Harvard...
...project included all the reactions it generated.” But some VES concentrators, like Intiya Isaza-Figueroa ’10, questioned this method of generating response to one’s artistic work. “Art in college is an academic pursuit, and should conform to academic, moral, and ethical standards,” Isaza-Figueroa said. “What she did was not mentally or physically healthy, for her or the people around her.” Yale students expressed surprise and disgust at Shvarts’ mode of artistic expression...