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...census is a large part of our national history, probably more so than in any nation's history. It was only through the census that the Constitutional Convention gained any ground. The 10-year census was written into law to ensure that the House of Representatives could function. And even then, when the census took 18 months and counted fewer than four million people, it was not accurate. Is it surprising that with a population 60 times that size that a few people are not counted...
According to Carl P. Sjogreen '00, business manager of HCS, the site will serve the same function as the bulletin boards in Server Hall and the Science Center where most students currently advertise course books for sale...
...interesting thing, of course, will be to see how both the Guggenheim and the Getty "break in"--how these ambitious projects will be used, how they will function in (and benefit) the social matrices of their cities. And that will be as much up to the public as it ever was to their architects...
Poor arts! No one ever suggests that dogs range far afield from the traditional canine function. The catch is, when you take money from the government, you subject yourself to the mercies of the political process--which is also open, as the recent history of the NEA (not to mention history, period) proves, to philistines and worse. American Canvas reminds us that they are not all on the right. Critic Edward Rothstein put it tartly in the Times: "Washington liberals took a similarly vulgar view [to conservatives], focusing on their own versions of 'values' and treating art as a form...
...with an edge. Not so fast. You haven't taken the angels into account. They're ferociously played by diminutive Holly Hunter and massive Delroy Lindo, and Gabriel (Dan Hedaya) has sent them back to Earth to bring these crazy kids together. If these dysfunctionals can be made to function in harmony, there is hope, he thinks, for a world riven by romantic discord. Well, why not? A little dollop of Here Comes Mr. Jordan or Stairway to Heaven never hurt anyone--except that these seraphs have a mean streak unknown to their more beamish movie predecessors...