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Harvard undergraduates tossed 28 more tons of beer cans, Moral Reasoning papers and other detritus of college life into the recycling bins this year than last during “Recycle Mania,” leaders of the undergraduate-run Resource Efficiency Program announced yesterday...
...Ceaucescu's Execution (earlier works include imagined views of Bill Gates' Bedroom and Kurt Cobain's Greenhouse) disturbs mainly by inference. A traditional oil on canvas, it refers to the patriotic legends of 19th century history painting. There is no glory here, though. All we see is the detritus of revolution: blood vividly stains the walls of a deserted ballroom stripped of everything but some random litter and a tacky chandelier. Many of these artists take aspects of life that earlier generations painted, drew or wrote about and render them in photos, film or video art. Mike Marshall doesn...
...screen looming above racks of mixers, keyboards and laptops. Stranger sounds probably never emerged from Science Center D. Guest artist Keith Fullerton Whitman, best known as glitchcore renegade Hrvatski, began his half-hour set with lo-fi guitar twangs that quickly dissolved into a hypnotic ocean of swirling sonic detritus, electronic squalls, static bombs, gurgles and crackles...
...Sixty years later, the Hermes is just one of the wrecks that forms a divers' paradise around Batticaloa, 132 kilometers south of Trincomalee (the wreckage of the Vampire is yet to be found). Sunken ships and other detritus of war litter the sandy bottom along the coast?including remains from more recent conflicts. Little more than a year ago, Tamil Tiger suicide bombers blew up a government warship, killing 26 people and injuring...
...laying waste to their community. Though it was Israeli ordnance that destroyed his house, the vicious action of his son Hazim lit the fuse. In fighting the intifadeh, the Palestinians have pulled the walls of their society down on themselves. Like Sarasra, they sit helpless and angry in the detritus of what was, wondering how it will ever be possible to rebuild. "Our problem is so huge," says Sarasra, "how can anyone even imagine a solution...