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...light of this powerful wisdom from a pint-sized pop icon, the answer is simple. Golf needs to start stroking the American people better than it has in the past. Or else, one day the sport of golf will discover that Americans have responded to its unchanging ambivalence with "What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?" and changed the channel in favor of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" or "Walker, Texas Ranger...
...www.whitney.org represent a provocative slice of this nascent art form. Take Ouija 2000 by Ken Goldberg, a site that displays live video of a real Ouija board controlled by the collective mouse strokes of as many as 20 people simultaneously logged on to the site. Another piece, Every Icon, shows a seemingly simple-looking grid that is 32 squares high and wide. Its creator, John Simon, devised a program that cycles through the trillions of ways the grid could be filled with black and white squares--a metaphor for Net art's endless creative possibilities...
...involvement with the Harvard Living Wage Campaign began that afternoon. The sight of Bob's anonymous arm and the cafeteria's multi-million dollar Joan Miro installation that framed it became for me an icon of the skewed institutional values that subject Harvard's working-poor to unnecessary and, in a very real sense, invisible hardship...
HERE SHE IS The icon of American beauty, always thin, is becoming even more so...or less, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins last week...
...Arrow Pub is a Harvard Square icon. When individuals think of Harvard Square, they think of places like The Bow & Arrow Pub. Chain store operations and shopping mall ambience is not high on their priority list when going to Harvard Square," Rosenberg writes in his letter...