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...becomes readily apparent that we’re not in New York any more. The "list" is a collection of Daniela’s ardent supporters rather than a weapon of mass humiliation; the models look like your really stunning next door neighbor rather than a really stunning display of bones; and the fashion crowd even includes a group of pre-teens pouting for their mom’s camera...
...Jenkins’ specialties. “My life is as ridiculous and full of foolishness as the lives of my students,” he explains. He recalls an incident last year when, late to class, he hastily hooked up his computer to the projector, only to display his desktop background—a flirty picture of Jake Gyllenhaal—onto the screen. “Instead of acting embarrassed, I greeted him. ‘Why hello Jake! Class, meet Jake. Jake, class’” Jenkins recalls. “Teachers are human beings...
...course of the novel - it's narrated by one of her roommates - Lola is politically harassed and sexually traumatized, and finally she hangs herself. The title refers to the unripe plums that the city's ogreish police officers steal and eat as they roam the streets, in a display of brainless gluttony...
MIT’s applicants will still bear the same stress that comes with a college application. Unfortunately, they may lose the ability to display their voice and writing skills with this new format. It was already a challenge for applicants to express themselves in a 500-word essay, but it is more difficult to do this in 200 words. Students will be forced to focus almost entirely on content, whereas in the traditional personal statement, they can display their true writing talent...
...photographs of kids. Two years ago, police seized a photograph by Nan Goldin of two young girls belly dancing in the nude. The work, which six years earlier had been judged decent by the Crown Prosecution Service, was part of a set owned by Elton John and was on display in a northeastern England gallery. The CPS once again cleared the image, saying that standards of propriety had not changed significantly since its last judgment. (Read "Elton John Rock's Captain Fantastic...