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Remember when hand-held computer gadgets were cool? When strangers on a bus would cast envious--or at least curious--glances at geeks and road warriors tapping away on their Palms and Blackberries? Lately the novelty has worn thin. With look-alikes proliferating and disposable income shrinking, sales of pricey personal digital assistants (PDAs) have sagged...
...deceptive depth of the piece is a common theme in the collection, billed as “A Melange of Queer Art Exploring Deviance, Allure and the Curious Concoction of the Two.” The multimedia representations of homosexuality on display are alluring and thoughtfully blended with images from mainstream life to question our assumptions of normal behavior. Seemingly small in scope, this gem of a collection is an ambitious project that ought not to be overlooked...
...synthetic amplification of our opponents to be unacceptably disadvantageous. Consequently, the HRC will request a similar grant from the council for an intended “Support Our Troops” rally should war break out. We find the consideration of volume as an element of free speech curious, but we hope the council will see fit to level the playing field...
GESO has a rather dubious history. For starters, its leadership has consistently claimed that its membership reaches over 50 percent of all Yale graduate students. Yet, the number of union members who turned out to vote for or against the strike is a curious detail. After all, a mere 623 graduate students voted, out of 2,334 campus-wide. For the most important vote in the union’s entire existence, then, only half of its claimed members even showed up. With a “yes” vote of only one-fifth of all graduate students...
...Jakarta, plugged in Less a guidebook than an alphabet book of Indonesia's capital, Daniel Ziv's Jakarta Inside Out is a curious hybrid that will have a hard time finding a place on bookstore shelves. Which is a pity. The slim volume is graced with striking photographs of city life, but the paperback format and irreverent, witty observations keep it firmly out of the coffee-table book genre. The 60-odd short essays on subjects ranging from the ubiquitous Asongan (vendors who ply their wares through the city's equally ubiquitous traffic jams), to bules (resident foreigners), nonkong...