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Barney sees all of what he produces as both stand-alone works and pieces of his never-ending puzzle. To an art world eager for the next new movement, he's like a one-man ism. Or is he? The Guggenheim Museum in New York City is giving him the largest show of his already formidable career. The museum's spiraling dome has been made over into a recondite theme-park pavilion, filled with banners, video screens, Barney's sculptures and other artifacts of the Cremaster series. In the downstairs auditorium the films play nonstop. He has always wanted everything...
Professional scholars, in contrast, seem to recognize the threat war poses to their interests. At the Faculty meeting on Tuesday, University President Lawrence H. Summers attempted to put an end to their hand-wringing by reassuring them that his PATRIOT-ism jibes with the University’s commitment to academic inquiry and civil liberties. Above all, the University must avoid admitting it is implicated in the oily mess overseas. When Adams House Masters Sean and Judith Palfrey sent an e-mail to Adams residents explaining why they had attended a peace rally, Summers declared it “unfortunate...
...History: Yamakawa Shuppan, which publishes history textbooks used in nearly half of Japan's high schools, airbrushed its account of the casualties inflicted during the 1937 Nanjing Massacre by deleting the words "tens of thousands to 400,000" and leaving "many Chinese"; the Ministry of Education approved the revision(ism...
...modern academic ombuds position had origins during student radical- ism of the 1960s, he said. And at many schools, conflicts involving students remain a primary focus...
...found myself on the phone with people from the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge (DFMC), a group of about 400 people who run Boston every year and collect pledges for a research program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The combination of blind anger, frustration and college can-do-it-ism convinced me that I could finally do something about this disease that kept invading people’s lives...