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...granite and red marble foyer grafted onto the front of the building, the exhibition spaces are much less cluttered. Just as important, says Diane Lees, the museum's director, is the rethinking of its layout. "We wanted it to be much more about seeing the exhibits in context," she says. The regimented ranks of dolls and bears have been scattered among the rows of full-length, small-person-accessible glass cabinets, now themed with titles such as Imaginary Play and Classic Fantasy. Pride of place still goes to such rare items as the Dutch-made Princess Daisy doll...
...Faculty and discussed at today’s meeting, the eight-member task force wrote: “We have removed ‘reason and faith’ as a distinct category, feeling that courses dealing with religion—both those examining normative reasoning in a religious context and those engaging in a descriptive examination of the roles that religion plays today and has historically played—can be readily accommodated in other categories...
...runoff election was an abysmal 16% to 17% - may be willing to wait for that explanation. But some observers here worry that the rest of the nation may be losing patience with the city, and are asking that outsiders consider the election in the volatile post-Katrina political context. They fear that New Orleans could be viewed as not taking corruption seriosuly. "The national perception of this - 'How did they reelect a guy with $90,000 in his freezer' - is not what I'd consider the truth," says demographer and political analyst Elliott Stonecipher. "This is far more complex...
...important not to exaggerate the likely consequences of Iraq's endgame for the U.S. America will remain the world's most powerful country regardless of how Iraq turns out and how much U.S. foreign policy is blamed for it. The U.S. will continue to enjoy a benign international context in which it faces no great power rival, as it did throughout the cold war and as great powers have traditionally done throughout history. And ironically, the winding down of the U.S. involvement in Iraq will have a salutary effect--namely, it will slow the draw on American economic, diplomatic...
...have anything to do with Harvard. The apology was addressed to the Dartmouth community and served to affirm the view of the Dartmouth Athletic Department that the mascots which the NCAA has deemed “hostile and offensive” are indeed so. Harper was speaking in the context of several recent events at Dartmouth—events of such magnitude that Dartmouth’s president has officially addressed them and, just last week, sparked a “Solidarity Against Hatred” rally attended by several hundred Dartmouth students, staff, and faculty...