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...this serves more as a 4-H club exhibit than a commercial farm. But as HUDS seeks to extend its sustainable foods, this could be the ideal model for hormone-free, land-preserving, more humane animal agriculture. For the sake of animals and the environment, let’s hope HUDS’ reforming impulse succeeds...
...GSAS Allan M. Brandt said he agreed with the content of the report. “I have always been convinced that graduate education fundamentally serves the public good,” Brandt wrote in an e-mail. “This report draws attention to a core ideal in higher education; namely that graduate education serves the public good by creating new and more sophisticated knowledge, as well as the next generation of researchers, scholars, and teachers.” But serving the greater good may not necessarily be on the minds of current graduate students...
...emerges. The pale-faced woman, spinning a fan like a tape recorder while being showered with kilo upon kilo of white powder, unites sex, drugs, money, and music in a single image. The geisha, not the Wu-Tang Clan, is the focal point of this video: she is the ideal of a high-rolling hip-hop lifestyle, an ideal that will long outlive the rappers who made it famous. —Mark A. VanMiddlesworth
...home in central Spain. El Greco’s heavy application of paint compresses the landscape and creates a personal view of the city that evokes the mystical qualities of his religious works. The portraits in the second room were created as tools of state which depict images of ideal monarchs. Philip’s wife, Queen Margarita, wears a sumptuous dress in her portrait, painted with painstaking detail, while her face is mask-like. Gone are El Greco’s expressive brush strokes, replaced with a new artistic naturalism that focuses on the realistic representation of fabric folds...
...expert on civil rights litigation at the University of Alabama School of Law. “Now is a good time for Harvard to do more in terms of an investigation, and Drew Faust,who is our nation’s leading historian of the Old South, is an ideal person to lead this process.”But Faust said that despite her academic interests, she will not be calling for an institutional investigation of any kind, even while acknowledging that the question of Harvard’s entanglements with slavery is “intriguing?...