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...which aims to get politicians to refuse money from lobbyists, ban “earmarks,” and support public financing of campaigns. “Changing congress is the hardest political challenge that we as a nation face,” Lessig said in the video. Lessig, famous for bringing a 2003 case that unsuccessfully challenged prevailing U.S. copyright law, is the founder of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that allows copyright holders to provide some or all of the rights to their work online for free. “Lawrence Lessig is a great American...
...message is: blink and they'll change. For the first time, a large-scale study has quantified what many experts suspect: there is a constant membership turnover among most American faiths. America's religious culture, which is best known for its high participation rates, may now be equally famous (or infamous) for what the new report dubs "churn...
...Vantage Point is a wan title for such a bustling movie. (Since it's William Hurt in the terrorists' gun sights, it could be called Kill Bill.) But if it hints at the title of a famous 1970 car chase movie, Vanishing Point, that makes sense, since the new film argues that terrorists can be tracked down not by super-sleuthing or political back-channeling, but because of the fanatically assured driving skills of a lone government agent. The film also has echoes of a few other cluttered frescoes that play out in a limited time-frame: Vantage Point, reduced...
...came to see naked ladies, right?” founder and tour manager Annie Oakley called out as the show began. The audience whooped. I chewed nervously on the end of my pen. I was there for the art. First on the program was the World Famous *BOB*, a burlesque dancer whose legendary breasts have been featured in books, films, and television series. She warmed up with the story of her hapless career as a dominatrix, explaining that every time the person paying her screamed, she would drop the whip and ask them, “Are you okay...
...residence. The commissioned pictures of the Boston Athenaeum lend the building a “kinetic energy that metaphorically invokes the intellectual and cultural vitality of the institution,” according to Richard Wendorf, the director of the Athenaeum. In Kellner’s photographic reconstructions of famous landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower, the structure disassembles and seems to be dancing, breaking, or floating into air. He creates his works by taking individual photos of the architecture, which resemble tiles composing the whole. Kellner alters our usual perspective by tilting particular photos at angles. In this...