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...hear student opinion, we disagree with the distinction he has made between coming to office hours to complain and signing a petition. Although it is understandable that the administration need not act on any petition that comes through the doors of University Hall, petitions do serve a very important function as vital barometers of student opinion. The reality is that many administrative decisions here at Harvard are made with little to no input from those they will affect. Petitions reflect the feelings of many students and should be treated with more respect and consideration--and not with indifference tinged with...
...want to fall in line with the Bush camp, agreeing with him on issues like tax breaks and military funding, but the Texas governor will have to find a convincing way to quell fears that he has lunged too far to the right on social issues. "As a function of his campaigning in South Carolina, some people don't see Bush as a moderate any more," says Pooley. "They see him as a hard-core conservative...
...movie has no vision, no fine comic attitude about life, except that it is one damned thing after another, most of them bearing no relation to reality and having no function other than to keep the wheels of the farce heedlessly spinning. But it features a dental assistant (Amanda Peet) whose dream in life is to become a professional killer, the divinely materialistic Rosanna Arquette talking in a deeply goofy accent and a self-mocking supercool Willis. It also has a really good joke about throwing up. You're entitled to ask for more than that in a comedy...
...random clapping) vs. the urge to clap in unison. People switch from one to the other by consciously adjusting the speed of their applause. Why do some folks seem to play this game with such gusto? According to the study, published last week in Nature, it may be a function of how closely knit the audience is. Maybe the crowd that feels like one claps like...
...manner of supports are about the empirical discovery of facture. He has said that "there is never a question of what to paint, but only how to paint." Artschwager (whose work was exhibited in the Carpenter Center earlier this year) creates objects, often boxes, with no clear function, and painted images based on commercial sources. LeWitt has been an avatar of the conceptual art movement since the 1960s. His geometric constructions, based on mathematical models, often take their form from instructions which the artist has dictated on paper, leaving their execution as an afterthought. Buren has been operating since...