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...future, Min hopes that Harvard will put more energy into promoting their public art programs and that more students will take an interest. Counter to what one may expect, she remarks that public art doesn’t just advertise itself—people have to look...
...good way to establish a working definition of the contemporary Hipster is through comparison to past social movements that we now identify as counter-cultural, because that is how Hipsterdom understands itself and how it is marketed. The genealogical basis of today’s Hipster is in the Beat Generation. The Beat-Hipster’s legitimizing counter-cultural features were the unconventionality of their semi-nomadic lifestyle, the sexual openness, and commitment to expression freed from formal technique. The music, appropriated from Black Americans, was bebop. Most importantly the Beat-Hipsters were sincere...
...Bali, has claimed hundreds of foreign and local lives over the past eight years. Just weeks before Obama was due in Indonesia, police shot dead at an Internet café outside Jakarta a man believed to have orchestrated the 2002 bombings of two Bali nightclubs. Indonesia's efforts to counter its terror threat - so far it has had impressive success in netting hundreds of suspected extremists and re-educating youths susceptible to the call of militant clerics - can provide the world lessons on how to excise the cancer of religiously inspired violence from the Islamic faith...
...restricting the quality of care would engulf the industry. And with retiring Baby Boomers mounting additional stress on providers, the situation called for bold and decisive action. This legislation puts America on track to solve these pressing issues by insuring 32 million people and enacting consumer protections that will counter the host of problems plaguing the system...
Although hard to imagine, the last three innings turned out to be a pitchers’ duel. The Crimson’s sophomore Rachel Brown hurled four innings in relief, limiting the Terriers to only a single run on three hits. Boston University was able to counter with Megan Currier, who gave up only a single in the last three innings to ice the victory for the Terriers...