Word: humanity
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Each year, the B-School provides two scholarships for government managers to enroll in the AMP, one for the city of Boston and one for the state of Massachusettes, according to Vatter. Daniel Sullivan, Massachusetts' undersecretary for human resources, is the state participant in the program this spring, Glauber said...
...Human Figure in Early Greek Art," an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, charts the upward trek through the ripening depiction of the human form. That pivotal Greek effort laid the basis for Western art until this century, when the modernists exploded the assumptions of symmetry, rationalism and realism generally. The show, which after closing in Washington on June 12 will move on to Kansas City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston, is a collaboration of the National Gallery and the Greek government, in which contributions from 18 Greek museums have been assembled. Scaled to a museumgoer...
Everything in the show, even the virtual stick figures that march across very early pottery pieces, is enlivened by the Greeks' emerging confidence in human capabilities. But the most riveting works are inevitably the later ones. These include half a dozen examples of the free-standing marble figures called kouroi ("youths") that in the 6th century became the chief expression of the Greek belief in the human figure as the earthly signifier of the divine. Advancing rapidly in style from decade to decade, the kouroi appear to be the first examples of art for art's sake, their function...
Until last week, politics was a cram course in human diversity; the candidates spent a year talking and listening in living rooms and Rotary clubs from Iowa to New Hampshire. From now on, however, they will come to view the nation as an interchangeable sequence of airports, access roads and motel meeting rooms. The frenzy of Super Tuesday scheduling reduces voters to a blur -- sign-waving supporters, rapt faces in the crowd, a decorative backdrop for TV visuals...
...comparison of South Africa with the Nazi regime is much closer than one might think--every South African prime minister since 1948, except one, was imprisoned during World War II for pro-Nazi sympathies. Not surprisingly, these South African leaders have continued their abuse of human rights...