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...United States own the arts and the humanities in any real sense? Ownership of such goods is the result--as we students know--of hard work and study, not of abstract right. Item four is similarly insufficient: "Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster and support a form of education, and access to the arts and the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants." This declaration borders on parody with its extravagant claims. Technology will not be mastered by the arts...
...Franzen's gloomy observation has not deflected him or three other gifted writers of his acquaintance: Donald Antrim, Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace, last year's young literary comet. Only two months after Franzen's complaint, Wallace made a connection with Infinite Jest, his 1,000-page opus about an early 21st century North America splintered by drugs, fanatics and a business ethic so venal that even the months of the year have product names...
Arndt said the HBS GLSA "hopes this will become an annual forum to help foster acceptance and tolerance for alternative lifestyles in the workplace...
Adelstein also noted that Smith encouraged and helped foster the careers of several women in his department, including Professors of Medicine Joanne S. Ingwall and Eva J. Neer...
...watch her younger sister die last year while they waited for permission to take a protease inhibitor. Both girls had been infected in utero; their mother died a couple of years later. "The [pharmaceutical company] said they didn't have the right dosage for children," the girls' foster mother recalls. "They told us to hold out. But by the time she got accepted, it was too late [for Tanya's sister]." In February, Tanya started combination therapy with ritonavir and has since added seven pounds to her 75-lb. frame. The popular sixth-grader now feels well enough to have...