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Rajbanshi added that despite a booklet of suggested courses currently put out by CES, the College has very few offerings that encompass the ethno-American experience—an issue that CES hopes to address temporarily by hiring new visiting faculty...
Some argue that the queer studies program does not encompass a broad enough subject to establish an entirely new field of study. But as a discipline that explores the identity of a distinct social group, queer studies is as legitimate as, say, Afro-American studies. The fact that queer studies is devoted to a group defined by its sexuality rather than its cultural and historical background does not make it less worthy of academic pursuit...
Moulin Rouge, Dec. 18 ($22.49) This is the perfect chance to get inside Baz Lurhman’s head. His dizzying post-modern pastiche presents so many cultural allusions and pop-culture homages, that to comprehend them all requires multiple sittings. Now, Lurhman offers two audio commentaries to encompass the full scope of his sumptuous vision, and the second disc allows the viewer to manipulate multiple-camera angle views of the dance sequences...
...should be going, where I want it to end up and I think of some scenes and details I want to include. Then the plot usually develops itself further in the process of writing. My stories are generally contained—they aren’t sweeping stories that encompass a lot of time or action, so plotting them hasn’t been that involved a process...
Publishers are cautious about ordering up material that may soon be deemed irrelevant (better to leave that to periodicals). Second, the events are so complex and interconnected that they beg to be considered in a variety of lights, which a lone book or two cannot encompass. People still want instant information, but the kind of information they seek has suddenly, dramatically increased in scope. The same person who buys a book of patriotic photographs might also be interested in a comprehensive analysis of bioterrorism...