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...drama now revolves around what Koizumi's government can do. On a tough-love trip to Tokyo last month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill warned that if Japan didn't do some stiff brooming fast it could face "economic upheaval." In the Japanese context the meaning was clear: a loss of confidence, bank runs, financial collapse. Tokyo's greatest hope is a stiff restructuring of banks - one that keeps them afloat while at the same time forces them to drop deadbeat creditors - that doesn't freak out savers...
Black and white: the phrase suggests two polar opposites and a debate that can be boiled down into simple, irreconcilable positions. In an American context, given the country’s long history of racial division, the phrase has more loaded associations. So vast is this rift that our discourse on race has assumed a corresponding dichotomy: current discussions about race inevitably consist of “for” or “against” arguments about a limited number of policy topics. An intellectual who refuses to bow to these seemingly rigid dualities, then, both replenishes...
...loose paraphrase of Shakespeare, the actor’s role is to mirror humanity, revealing what is intrinsically genuine and affirming in life. AA Bronson thoughtfully and movingly takes up the Shakespearean mantle as a visual artist. He explores the questions of human suffering and identity in the context of the global AIDS pandemic in his exhibit “Mirror Mirror” at MIT’s List Visual Art Center...
Bronson’s work relies on perspective abnormalities that seem to openly assault the conventions of perception. This theme is continued in his most recent photographs, “Hotel Series.” Bronson’s nude photographs of himself in the transient context of a hotel indicate his struggle as he asserts himself in the face of tragedy, despite the continued haunting of time past...
Importantly, the pieces in “Over–stocked” are crucially interdependent—none make full sense apart from the context of the others. Wing begins the discussion deceitfully, suggesting that the show will be a trite critique of consumer culture. Quickly, though, Mueller and Ryoo dissolve this notion and turn the critical microscope onto art itself. And finally, gracefully, O’Reilly gestures at a resolution. Together, the artists’ work comprises an organism, and any attempt to understand it atomically or deconstructively will be misinformed...