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...these marriages of dance and technology McGregor says he seeks to "disrupt the spaces in which the body performs." By presenting the human form in a new and alien way, he wants audiences to see it through new eyes, and to understand its possibilities. Some have found the work unsettling. "You meet Wayne and he's the nicest guy," says former Royal Ballet star Darcey Bussell. "And then you see the steps and think: Hey, this is not so nice...
...spread features a picture of a lion composed of many smaller pictures of human breasts, described by the Lampoon Web site as “Boobs you can look at in the dentist’s office.” “Parody is a form of flattery,” National Geographic magazine editor Chris Johns said in a statement. “We may not agree with everything in it, but we take it as good fun.” As for the Lampoon’s next target? “The identity of the next...
...presence in the race, saying the competition has served to energize and turn out Democrats. But at least one Pennsylvania poll shows the race narrowing as Obama outspends Clinton five to one on television and radio ads. And a steady stream of superdelegates breaking for Obama has become a form of Chinese water torture for the Clinton campaign. "The news keeps trumpeting the idea that Clinton mathematically can't win the nomination, which means that he has a chance to make [the Pennsylvania race] close," said David Barker, a political science professor at the University of Pittsburgh. "I think...
...applicants were full-time college students balancing full academic and extra-curricular lives while going through the college application process a second time. Although the Admissions Office’s letter to the applicants recognizes this concern (and they plan to refund the application fee) it was in poor form to announce this decision after the application deadline. The reason for eliminating transfer admissions—a housing crunch—certainly did not appear out of thin air. The act of eliminating transfer admissions undermines the Harvard admissions philosophy. Had Harvard read the current applications and decided that none...
...that embodies its beliefs in brotherhood and primacy of God. Its goal is to make the campus aware of Islamic values by means of a custom that has been observed in Muslim societies across the globe since the earliest days of the religion. And to even consider it a form of proselytization is far-fetched. It is recited in Arabic; to whom could it conceivably have been proselytizing? Declaring something to be proselytizing reflects an attempt to ensure that it is censured. However, those who consider the adhan thusly disregard the power and religious potency embodied in symbols, behavior...