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...traditional craft” in the academic artistic community. “I’m a sculptor, and I am so inspired by her,” audience member Libby A. Maclaren said, explaining that Odundo’s pottery had always had a significant impact on her, as had recently visiting Odundo’s exhibiton “Black Womanhood” at Wellesley College. “Her forms are very, very beautiful, very elegant.” And Odundo made certain to convey her unwavering love for the art form while discussing her specific exhibitions...
...flows through the French Revolution, finds an unlikely mouthpiece in author Lewis Carroll, and continues to 20th-century economist Kenneth Arrow’s famed “impossibility theorem.” The theorem, which roughly proves that no ranked voting system can be fair, had an enormous impact on democratic thought.But by amplifying the discussion, the theorem also led to consideration of various other voting methods. Poundstone evaluates these alternatives, highlighting the merits and faults of each. He finds that no method is perfect, and each can be “gamed” by strategic voters...
...video game, something one would almost never expect from a hip-hop compilation, but the fact that they repeatedly sing, “I need a fresh cappuccino with a mocha twist / Fresh fresh cappuccino with a mocha twist” dampens the song’s overall impact. Tracks that have less rapping and more instrumental experimentation fare better, like the first song on the album, “The List.” It doesn’t help that “Remind Me in 3 Days...” doesn’t have much...
...Just as the success of movies and the flow of films to Massachusetts is an uncertainty, so too is the overall economic impact that they will have on the State. Paleologos believes that a “multiplier effect”—the idea that economic development will stimulate more than just the directly affected industries—may cancel out any money that the state puts into its film efforts...
...laws’ biggest impact could be to break down some of the myths associated with the animal protection movement...