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...they agree on nothing else, Big Government liberals and conservative devolutionists view national security and the preservation of domestic order as Washington's two primary roles. There is also a third and equally important federal function on which any public figure can help instruct Americans: the role of civil discourse in a democracy...
Dillon envisions his role as the Visiting Director as an asset to the entire theater community. "I see my function as having two parts: to try to put together the best production of the play that I can, and also to be a professional resource for students interested in theater...
...function of this committee is to provide some faculty oversight over the large projects that will be occurring in FAS and in the University and central administration as a whole, so that faculty can be alerted and can give input in a timely way," Feldman said...
...slogans--EAT AND DIE, TOUCH AND LIVE, HATE AND DIE and so on, done in flashing neon--are laconic, all right, but Beckett and Wittgenstein they're not, though the co-curator, Robert Storr, tries stubbornly to argue otherwise. Such eminent names--and Alain Robbe-Grillet's too--function as votive tin cans hung on the tree of Nauman's reputation, enhancing the piety with which one is meant to approach...
...Leverett; it will fail miserably in houses such as Eliot. The old river houses will probably find their populations even more isolated from other blocking groups and defeating the original intention of diversification. Although I would welcome more diversity in my house, looking at how its dynamics function now, I am very skeptical about whether randomization will overcome the obstacle of architecture. Gene...