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...that's just the problem with the Palais de Tokyo's approach: it's fake. The works on display are all in keeping with the bogus trash aesthetic. The most significant is Chinese artist Wang Du's No Comment, a giant wastepaper basket filled with old newspapers and three TV sets, a visual pun on the notion of trash TV. In Taxi Biennale - a garishly airbrushed comic strip presenting the adventures of "Curatorman, the young CEO of the global player ?uratorman Inc." - Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul offers a labored reworking of another hoary old chestnut: the relationship between...
...France's new approach to training and development began in the mid-1970s, when the French Football Federation (FFF), established the Institut National du Football, or INF, which assembled the nation's top recruits aged 16 and over for specialized training from élite coaches. The FFF also required all the country's professional clubs to establish and finance development centers where older prospects could combine studies with high-level footballing instruction and practice. Clubs in England, Italy, and Germany also train apprentice players, but they must find their future stars on their own. In effect, the INF provided French...
...idea du jour for stimulating the economy--a one-month "holiday" for workers and employers from payroll taxes--seems to have won over Congress the old-fashioned way: a wave of grass-roots support. Republican Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico has been pitching the plan for the past month. But he was getting nowhere until fellow Senators began hearing from constituents. G.O.P. Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee mentioned the idea at an economic conference at Princeton and was startled by the enthusiasm it generated among business leaders and students alike. Senate G.O.P. leader Trent Lott, on a trip home...
...This was Dr. Steiner at the top of his form, and the Norton lectures at their most sublime,” said Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., Du Bois professor of the humanities...
...address co-sponsored by Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and the Institute of Politics Student Advisory Committee, Jordan began by explaining the impetus for his new book, entitled Vernon Can Read...