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...they feel more identified with America than their home country—a sort of cultural inertia. “Being at Harvard for four years, you develop a lot of personal ties that make you reluctant to leave America, while at the same time your ties to home grow weaker,” says Schaefer, who is teaching English in Shanghai while waiting to hear whether he has been accepted to American graduate schools. “I don’t think it’s the University so much as the fact that you are living...
...here they are peeled into sheets and featured in a soup with the ubiquitous green chiles and fresh baby vegetables. Uniquely Cambodian products come from Florida, where the weather is similar to Cambodia, or from Lowell, where the city has given plots of land to the Khmer to grow native produce and herbs...
...wrote about and render them in photos, film or video art. Mike Marshall doesn't paint sun-dappled scenes but his video clips, such as Sunlight (shifting shadows on a patio) and Days Like These (plants and lawn periodically drenched by a sprinkler), do the unexpected: watching grass grow is exciting. This technological art depends on a collaboration between artist and subject - no longer passive, models provide their own narration like Veronica Read or, like Yokomizo's Strangers, decide how they'll be depicted. And processes and mechanical aids once hidden behind the Romantic image of the artist...
...magnum opus, the 704-page epic Great Neck, centers around a group of friends who grow up in the prosperous Long Island town of the same name and go on to participate in the political opposition movements of the 1960s. Much of the novel is loosely based on the history of the country and of Cantor himself...
...Cantor ’70 says that “nine-tenths of the people in your Harvard class who are acting like self-important little monsters will grow up to be nothing but perfectly average self-important monsters. A small percentage will grow up to be the artists that they’re acting as if they already...