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...companies are thus not only betraying students but also the American government and the American dream. The monetary incentives for such behavior are reaching unimaginable proportions. The student loan industry is approximately a $14 billion per year industry, and it is growing. All it takes to create a cash cow is to establish a niche at a few universities. Ultimately it falls to colleges to resist the temptation to make a quick buck and stand up for their students. That universities are failing to do so has been brought to light both by investigations by New York Attorney General Andrew...
...chestnut, another is clad in crackled local clay. In a third hangs an exquisite 12-m-wide filigree curtain made of 10,000 horse-chestnut stalks pinned together with thorns. High on a hill overlooking the park, all but a snaking ribbon of picture window has been covered in cow dung. "It works like the landscape itself," Goldsworthy says. "From a distance you think that's beautiful. Get up close and you think, Hmm." www.ysp.co.uk
...Goldsworthy has become famous over the last 30 years. Among the new outdoor pieces are dry-stone wall enclosures that cradle giant fallen oaks, while inside there are rooms of stone, wood and clay. In another gallery all but a snaking ribbon of picture window has been covered in cow dung. In front of a curtain he made by pinning together 10,000 horse chestnut leaf stalks, Goldsworthy, 50, spoke to TIME's Michael Brunton about his inspiration and his homecoming...
...dead lambs every year - that's the way it is. Dogs attacking sheep, raw brutal experiences and they've always remained in what I do. It's such an important part of the landscape; it's green and verdant because of it. So that's why I put cow sh-- on the window, to make you aware of it while you're looking [out]. Right in front of your face is the stuff you choose to ignore...
There's stiff competition - the handling of mad cow disease, the royal family's years of dysfunction - but it is hard to think of anything in modern times that has held Britain up to such, and such richly deserved, international contempt as the case of the 15 captured mariners in the Shatt al Arab. There was the original sin; messing about in lightly armed little boats in a waterway contested by Iran - a bit like poking a mad dog in the eye without being prepared to clobber it with a big stick if it bites. There has been the miserable...