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...taking a decidedly different tack at this Games. The last time around, in Nagano, she skipped Opening Ceremonies and shunned the Olympic Village in favor of a private hotel. That wouldn't have been a big deal, but Tara Lipinski, who would trump her for the gold, did the exact opposite - marching in Opening ceremonies, living in the athlete dorms, taking in every bit of the Olympic experience. And it worked for Lipinski. All of this may or may not have played in Kwan's mind on Thursday when she decided to stay in Salt Lake City for what...
...appear to rotate as the viewer’s perspective changes, giving them a sense of life. Moreover, daguerreotypes possess greater individuality than photographs. Where from a single photographic negative, innumerable prints can be struck, each daguerreotype is composed of a single silver-coated copper plate from which no exact copies can be created. When viewed straight on, the image presented is the traditional positive, but as perspective shifts, the negative appears—in this manner, simultaneously occupying the normal and reverse of photographs, the singular uniqueness of daguerreotypes becomes wonderfully apparent...
Isis co-founder Anne M. Fernandez ’03 declined to comment on the exact location of the apartment, but said it was only a two-minute long walk from the Square...
That wait came to an end last month when Prime Minister Lionel Jospin officially opened the "Palais de Tokyo, site for contemporary arts." With breathtaking imposture, architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal transformed the monumental 1930s splendor of the Palais de Tokyo building into an exact replica of a derelict warehouse - spending $3.3 million of French taxpayers' money in the process. Exposed electrical cabling runs along the ceiling's chipped I beams. The plaster walls of the main exhibition space are randomly gashed and pockmarked. The café's price list is scrawled onto sheets of brown paper...
...circulated via e-mail, the petition—which now has 120 signatures—used direct quotations from a Crimson staff editorial, without attribution. Eight of the petition’s 15 sentences copy the exact phrasing of a Jan. 7 Crimson editorial written in response to the HCECP report...