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...series provides a counterpoint to this antagonism. Each “Nu Zébré” is a variation on the simple but very expressive setup of window blinds cracked open just enough to cast thin stripes of light on a female model. The blinds filter the light in long straight lines, but upon the body each line curves, thickens, and thins in its own unique way. In these slyly minimal photographs, Clergue most creatively celebrates the female form, for which the plain rigidity of the inorganic world is a foil. Here, it is the women...
...such reasoned and academic arguments have largely failed to filter into the mainstream public debate. But in the world of statisticians, there is some introspection taking place. "Perhaps the communication of statistics was too focused on averages and not enough on variants," Giovannini says. That's a statistician's way of saying people were not warned that some prices could go up, even if inflation as a whole stayed down. Now, it's a bit late...
...criticized Lindzen's appearance, the school felt it was sending the right message. "It's important to teach kids to hear all sides of an issue," said Terence Barton, the principal of Bronxville High School. "There is so much being thrown at them and they need to learn to filter out the right information...
...some ask their families to cut it out, and others simply ignore the e-mails entirely. I fit into the latter group. When I got tired of reading about “former president Jimmy Carter’s anti-Israel frenzy,” I put a spam filter on messages from my mom. Lo and behold, the e-mails stopped coming...
...suburbs last year - an outcry that also coincided with his jump in polls. The street patois of those ethnically diverse projects, meanwhile, has also long contained its own racially aggressive "shock" element, with the rejoinder "ta race" (your race) a kind of generic, all-purpose slight. Clearly, the political "filter" in the U.S. public square that prompts a Michael Richards or a Mel Gibson to grovel apologetically following publicly recorded racial insults is considerably less developed in France. Indeed, last year's riots were a stark reminder of how poorly France has done in integrating its diversity, remaining locked...