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...Something in the culture of the place encourages the verbal response to things over the visual. Now, museums are not here simply to respond to the interests of the History of Art and Architecture department. We are here to respond to and provoke the consideration of art as a distinct object. In the curriculum of the art history department it is in terms of history and the patterns of relationships over time; for the VES department it is in terms of the making of the thing. For museums, it is in terms of the thing made and seen...
...outset, it's important to note that news accounts often conflate two phenomena: pedophilia and child sexual abuse. According to Dr. Fred Berlin, a Johns Hopkins University professor who founded the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma in Baltimore, Md., pedophilia is a distinct sexual orientation marked by persistent, sometimes exclusive, attraction to prepubescent children. Dr. John Bradford, a University of Ottawa psychiatrist who has spent 23 years studying pedophilia--which is listed as an illness in the manual psychiatrists use to make diagnoses--estimates its prevalence at maybe 4% of the population. (Those attracted...
From the huge steel phallus guarding the front door to the pervasive presence of wood inside to the noticeably attractive staff, Cambridge, 1 has a distinct feel of urban masculinity. You can almost imagine a couple of drunk guys deciding to forgo the real world and instead open up their own imagined culinary nirvana filled with quality food, good drinks and hot girls...
...discipline served many students interested in Latin American studies. More recently, in the wake of Clinton-era cumbersome health care proposals, a swath of students pursued special concentrations in health policy. Foster says her program always draws from a unique pool of students ready to deal with the distinct benefits and burdens that come with blazing their own trails...
...second proposal for honors reform would further separate departmental honors from honors awarded by the Faculty. Faculty and department-awarded honors do currently compose two separate categories, but under this proposal, they would be distinct in both name and practice—Faculty-awarded honors would no longer take departmental recommendations into consideration...