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...sprawling archipelago is struggling to emerge as a stable democracy. It hosts a full complement of developing-country ills: endemic corruption, erratic courts, reform-resistant corporations, crippling national debt, a barely functioning banking sector and falling investment. Psychological shock waves surging outward from Kuta Beach are bound to intersect with the nation's fragile social and political ecosystem in unpredictable ways, testing the allegiances and resilience of an ineffective government, and dealing a body blow to a sputtering economy that has yet to fully recover from Asia's 1997 economic crisis. "The bomb blast in Bali hurts a situation that...
Unlike the other institutes for advanced study, Radcliffe does not limit itself to one particular area of expertise. Creative arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences intersect within the Institute...
...dismissed, passed over, out-ranked because “things are just business, not personal.” And we accept this attitude, because we think of the workplace as being a strict meritocracy. But in extracurriculars at Harvard, the two worlds of work and personal life very often intersect. Can you ever really be friends with someone who controls whether you get elected for that coveted position? If they vote against you, are they really your friend? Much turmoil ensues every year for this very reason—people get hurt when these lines blur...
...Rather than reinforce traditional dichotomies (high vs. low, art vs. commerce),” the exhibit aims to “allow visitors to decide whether such distinctions are still useful or important, considering the multiple ways contemporary art and fashion photography now intersect.” It does this in an unusual way, splitting up the work of its 40 international photographers among its two floors into “Creativity” and “Commerce” sections to allow visitors to see independently the work done for profit and the work done for art?...
...unusual is that they seem utterly alive. The combination of the fact that Ackroyd and Harvey’s images are almost three-dimensional and are made of organic material, give them a quality unlike any photographs. As one moves across the room the angles that the blades intersect each other shift and this too makes it appear as though the viewer were seeing breathing moving images. And, in fact we are: These are living photographs...