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...that had somehow lost its juice. The average American has nine credit cards with a total $17,000 balance. We borrow against our houses and pensions to live in a way that dares us to actually grow old. "Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon," Fidelity mastermind Peter Lynch advised, but we embraced all kinds of investments about which we understood nothing except the hollow promise that they would never fail. When the economy began to swoon we kept spending, effectively sending ourselves rebate checks from accounts already way overdrawn, as if it would make...
...Koons’ open-ended explanation of his own work demonstrates his readiness to have it received in a number of ways. Throughout the lecture, he emphasized his desire to produce objective art. The lecture started off with a sepia-toned childhood photograph of Koons fondling a box of crayons. Now grown-up and clad in a flashy silk suit, he explained that his art career started at the age of seven, when he began combining Popsicle sticks with an artistic flair, sometimes throwing in crayon drawings if he so desired. He soon realized that his talent exceeded that...
...Travis R. Wood ’07, and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Helene Landemore.Bush submitted a short animation project titled “Animal Tales.” “I shot it in Sever. The project uses a lot of different media, crayon, paint, newspaper, cutouts, photographs,” she says. “It’s a comic, fairytale piece about two animals that are friends and go off on an adventure across the sea.”Olken entered a fictional piece titled “There Will Be Time...
...HOMESCHOOLERS AND THE NEXT FRONTIERWhile Norberg’s unconventional upbringing presented hardships in the classroom, it helped foster the individuality that friends say defines him. His friends say the true “Stephen Norberg” is the person writing his final exam essay in crayon or doing the butterfly in a speedo in three feet of snow, they say. They estimate 60 percent of his college diet consisted of root beer and cookie dough and 75 percent of his wardrobe is made up of flip-flops and Hawaiian shirts. But how much of this is homeschooling responsible...
Every day the mothers of Cabrini-Green encounter silent reminders of how urgently they need this truce. At Cycle, a community center and haven for Cabrini mothers and children, a crayon drawing hangs in the hallway. It depicts a bright yellow sun shining down on two big brightly colored figures. The messages I LOVE GOD and WE ARE SPECIAL are written in a child's neat block letters. At the bottom of the picture, a little girl named Laketa wrote her name. On a hot July night last year, Laketa awaited her turn in a double-Dutch jump-rope game...