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...meantime, some best-selling Asian artists are content to poke fun at their foreign patrons. Shanghai artist Zhou Tiehai, who has exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York City and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, gained international attention in the 1990s with his playful renditions of cigarette icon Joe Camel dressed as the Mona Lisa and other Western art figures. At the 1999 Venice Biennale, he exhibited fake magazine covers adorned with his face - a cheeky commentary on the overseas fame so many Asian artists crave. Now he produces soft-focus landscapes and chinoiserie portraits. Yet even though...
...years as head of the party I've had eight minutes on national television," says Chebbi. Government officials dismiss him as little more than a handy antigovernment source for the foreign press. Béchir Tékari, Minister of Justice and Human Rights, complains: "Some people are content to take information from a certain minority of activists...
...case I was using it not just as a filler—I think what your high school teacher was objecting to, using it when a another specific word when is available. I was using it in terms of stuffing, in terms of content, not just kind of stuff about the mind but stuff in the sense of what our thoughts are composed of—the raw material of what our stuff is composed of.5. FM: Your recent essay in the New Republic addressed the nature of swearing. Will understanding the nature of taboos make them less taboo...
Pacemaker entries are assessed on criteria ranging from coverage and content to quality of writing and design...
...administration. This would bring Harvard in line with many of its peers; for instance, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Yale currently subsidize free newspaper programs for students. The only possible objection to the program that we see is the Times’ recent decision to make almost all of its content free online. But newspapers in dining halls offer students something that an online newspaper cannot—a physical presence that can promote debate and discussion far more effectively than the somewhat isolating experience of reading the paper on a screen. It also allows students to browse and chance...