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...other things will be very different from Miami, starting with the less than sunny atmosphere. The latest summit meeting place, a French-speaking city whose picturesque 18th-century old town was denominated as a world heritage landmark by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, will be fenced off and guarded by phalanxes of police in riot gear. Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to descend upon Quebec City to vent their spleen at capitalism, globalization and the evils of free trade and to demonstrate their conviction that the FTAA will make things worse instead of better...
Renovation of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate began in November, but the ugly scaffolding that usually surrounds such a building site is nowhere to be seen. Instead, the city's 18th century landmark has been swathed in a series of gigantic posters promoting Deutsche Telekom. The wrapping of construction scaffolding in mammoth ad posters is just one example of "ambient media," a fast-growing marketing genre that's finding new places to advertise in the Old World...
Bollinger previously told The Crimson that if the U-M affirmative action policy were not upheld, society would run the risk of sliding "back into a world in which we don't attend to [civil rights] issues." He compared the implications of the current lawsuit to the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education {ITALICS...
During the 1960s," Andy Warhol once said, "I think people forgot what emotions were supposed to be, and I don't think they've ever remembered." Warhol's words are belied by the strong sensations - humor, outrage, nostalgia - that reverberate through "Les Années Pop," the landmark exhibit that opened March 15 at Paris' Centre Pompidou. For if it can often be difficult to seize the meaning behind a given piece of Pop (short for popular) Art, this show's great strength is to put 500 works of art, architecture, fashion, design and film into the context...
Bollinger compared the Michigan affirmative action lawsuits to the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public schools should be integrated. If the U-M affirmative action policy is not upheld, he said, society runs the risk of sliding "back into a world in which we don't attend to those issues...