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Blind photography: the very concept sounds like an oxymoron. But an intriguing and often striking exhibition of photographs in Riverside, California, argues that it emanates from the core of contemporary art. The show "Sight Unseen," at the California Museum of Photography until Aug. 29, features everything from underwater scenes off Catalina Island, transvestites in New Orleans and Braille-enhanced black-and-whites as well as portraits, nudes, landscapes, travel shots, abstracts, collages, and everything else you might expect from a "sighted" photographer. Except the subtext and context is blindness: the photographers are legally blind, some born without sight or with...
...concerned about the recent property acquisition and welcomed the moratorium on real estate acquisition.“Harvard’s out of money—of course they’re not buying any more property. We’re more concerned with properties right in the core of our community,” Mattison said. “[The recent acquisition] is more of a backwater location, but it does show that Harvard is still thinking way ahead.” ‘SHIFTING GEARS’While BRA officials had intended to focus largely on street...
...made a similar point during the hearing. Yes, he said, this situation resembled the war in Vietnam, harking back to his earliest service, as a U.S. diplomat in Saigon. "Structurally, there are many similarities - the enemy sanctuaries across the border, the [failure of] governance, corruption ... but there is one core difference: 9/11," he said. "There was no threat from Vietnam to the U.S. homeland...
...House dining halls beginning in the fall, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith announced Monday. The cut comes in response to the College’s decision to lower the board rate students pay by 7.5 percent, as it seeks to devote more money to its “core mission”, according to HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin. The reductions in hot breakfast will save the College $900,000 a year, HUDS Executive Director Ted A. Mayer told students at a forum Monday night. Annenberg will still serve prepared breakfast to all students, and administrators emphasized that the cost savings...
...decline in American influence is at the core of the region's changing geo-political landscape. For decades after World War II, the U.S. authored the status quo in Asia's waters, with a series of naval bases from Guam to Japan, and a high-powered presence of marine corps and air-craft carriers to back up its interests with muscle. In 1996, when tensions between China and Taiwan bubbled over into threats of war, Washington was able to check Beijing's aggression by deploying two carrier battle groups off Taiwan's shores. That kind of move is unthinkable...