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...from the Zaha Hadid?designed building itself, which is a triumph of experimental construction techniques and design aesthetics - is to be found in the 18 pieces brought by Arthur Ganson from his workshop at MIT in Boston. Ganson creates machines that are exquisitely engineered from low-tech materials to "express a feeling or a thought or a question." A wishbone hauling its own dream machine across the floor may not have a clear meaning, but that takes second place, he says, to "communicating the intensity and patience I put into getting the thing to walk." www.phaeno.de/mechanik.html
...this injury-plagued regular season for the Crimson, as Harvard faces Columbia and Cornell, with the Eastern and National individual tournaments coming up shortly after. Although neither Saturday’s match against the Bears nor the year as a whole have gone exactly as planned, Weiss did not express the dejection one might expect, but instead sounded genuinely optimistic about the final weeks of the season. “We just have to continue to move forward,” Weiss said. “We have Cory Jantzen hopefully coming back next weekend and that gives...
...ouster was met with protests by some students and faculty, according to Brian Whitson, a William and Mary spokesman. “This is a very close-knit community,” Whitson said. “It is certainly understandable and a healthy process for folks to express their opinions and to have the opportunity to be heard.” Summers also enjoyed widespread support from the student body even after he announced his resignation. W. Taylor Reveley III has been appointed interim president of William and Mary, according to the Board of Visitors’ statement...
...GLSEN report. According to another GLSEN survey released in 2006, only 18% of gay and transgender students said they had been assaulted in 2005 because of their sexual orientation (only 12% - probably many of the same kids - said they had been assaulted because of the way they express their gender). By comparison, according to a 2007 Centers for Disease Control report, 18.2% of male students and 8.8% of female students reported being in a physical fight at school in the last year. Of those in the GLSEN report who had been harassed or assaulted, more than one-tenth - 13% - said...
...approval ratings with a bit of heart-stirring crime fighting for the nation's media to lap up. Such high-profile law-and-order activity, Sarkozy's detractors allege, might also help limit losses the right is expected to suffer should voters use nationwide municipal elections next month to express dismay with the national leadership of Sarkozy and his ruling majority...