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This year’s contentious discussion of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership and the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review have preoccupied the Faculty, pushing a once hot-button issue to the back burner...
...much as they have widened in scope. In recent years, they've become great swathes of blue across which his themes of exile and emancipation play out. While appealing to corporate collections - "that's how you make influence," notes curator Binghui - he hasn't shied away from hot-button issues like asylum seekers. "There was a moment when he was a Chinese artist living in Australia, then he became a Chinese-Australian artist, and now he's an Australian artist," says dealer Sherman. At Guan Wei's most recent show last year, Cate Blanchett became a collector. "She spent hours...
...creation care"--as part of their biblical mandate. But getting the ground troops mobilized behind a cause long scorned as touchy-feely nonsense requires a bit of creativity. (Witness the flop of the 2002 "What would Jesus drive?" campaign.) Thus some religious leaders are linking pollution to the hot-button issue of unborn tots, who, after all, tend to be the most vulnerable to environmental toxins. At the pro-life march in Washington in January, two evangelical activists carried a large banner urging STOP MERCURY POISONING OF THE UNBORN. The idea for the banner came from Richard Cizik, vice president...
Finally, there is the human-interest hot-button issue: family disagreement. It has become fashionable to vilify Michael Schiavo as an uncaring husband who cohabits with and has children with another woman. Juxtapose that image against the photos of weeping parents and siblings, and it is easy to predict the winner of the sympathy vote...
...Schiavo is not about cutting-edge law. It is not about rare conditions. It is about emotions and hot-button issues. It should leave us anxious to involve professionals to mediate discussions among families on end-of-life care and to complete our own advance directives. If we do, then perhaps the Schiavo family’s agony will have served some purpose...