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...watching here, too: Providence is home to the liberal bastion (and the I-can-be-funkier-than-you students) of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. RISD boasts a small but fine museum whose eclectic collection includes classical statuary, paintings by Edgar Degas, Mark Rothko and Georgia O'Keeffe, and blown glass by alumnus Dale Chihuly. On the city's south side is an oft-overlooked gem: Johnson & Wales University's food-focused gallery in its culinary college, where recent exhibits celebrated the American diner and the august history of Mr. Potato Head. With a culinary school...
...officially called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), the U.S. military-run training ground for Latin American strongmen and dictators was for years known as the School of the Americas (SOA). The Spanish-language army facility based in Fort Benning, Georgia, was responsible for helping to educate such military men as Panamanian dictator and convicted drug trafficker Manuel Noriega, the late Argentine junta leader imprisoned for human rights abuses Leopoldo Galtieri, and Salvadoran right-wing militia leader Maj. Roberto D'Aubuisson. Despite adding a "human rights" element to its curriculum in recent years, the school has engendered...
...Rials disputes the institution's negative reputation and denies that the school - which has trained more than 60,000 soldiers in the last 59 years, the last 22 after relocating from Panama to Georgia - can be linked to any crime. "When [Argentine junta leader] Galtieri was here in 1949, he took an engineering course," Rials says. "Did that have anything to do with him being a junta leader?" Nevertheless, a photograph of Galtieri, along with that of Bolivian dictator Hugo Banzer, hangs on one of the school's walls recognizing distinguished students...
...embracing locally grown food as the eco-healthy choice. Farmers' markets are thriving, along with community-supported agriculture, through which people subscribe to a monthly produce basket. And on locavore websites, converts swap shopping tips (Goatsbeard Farm feta from a Missouri cook) and recipes (cheese grits via a Georgia blogger who plugs a stone-ground variety from a mill powered by a mule named Luke). Some boast of eating local on a budget-- $8.34 a day in the case of an Oakland, Calif., activist who got by on sorrel-potato soup and honey-sweetened cookies for dinner. But she confesses...
...break that the team could return to the outdoors in Jekyll Island, Ga., for the first time in five months. “Over the winter, you pretty much lose all the momentum and confidence you had from the fall,” junior Tom Hegge said. Improvement after Georgia was readily apparent throughout the short spring season. After a rain-shortened tournament at Yale, Harvard played its best golf of the spring at the New England Division I Championships. The team hung with or beat several Ivy rivals, conveniently peaking the week before the Ivy League tournament...