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...human spirit: we all remember the photographs from 1994 of endless lines of black South Africans, standing patiently, ready to vote in the country's first free election. But you can have shambolic elections in a true democracy (think Florida). And you can have the converse: situations where elections function as a symbol of democracy, but don't guarantee its practice. It's what evolves after an election that truly makes a society democratic - a free press, limits placed on the exercise of power by an independent judiciary, an open system of government. In 1933, lest we forget, Hitler came...
...Harvard senior faculty, artists and members of the wider art community, in response to your editorial on the administration’s treatment of Ellen Phelan in her role as chair of the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department and director of the Carpenter Center (“Changing Function, Not Face...
...According to scientists at the University of Bristol, England, flight attendants who travel long distances without taking adequate breaks may be damaging a part of their brains responsible for spatial orientation and some cognitive function...
...GULP" BANKING A money order with your Slurpee? 7-Eleven is joining the convenience banking crowd. The c-store chain has partnered with Amex and Western Union to offer banking services through Web-enabled kiosks called V.coms They not only function as ATMs but also allow you to cash a personal check, wire money and pay utility bills instantly. V.coms are being rolled out first in Texas and Florida, but expect to see them in all 5,300 nationwide stores by early next year...
...believe that Phelan was not an effective chair of the department, we are also concerned by the choice of her replacement. While Garber is a respected literature scholar and a talented administrator, she has no specific experience or expertise in VES. She may be able to make VES function more smoothly, but she does not and cannot have the same commitment to the visual arts as an artist, and we worry that she will be unable to provide the artistic leadership and vision necessary for the VES department. We encourage Garber to seek out advice on ways to continue Phelan?...