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...newly-departed Cowles Associate Professor of English Lynn M. Festa’s “Sex and Sensibility in the Enlightenment” is just a relic in the CUE Guide archives. English Lecturer Marie K. Rutkoski’s fall semester class on Renaissance dramas will include lit staples by Freud and Foucault. According to the course description, “the culturally foreign, madness, and the supernatural” will all be explored. Sounds sexy...
Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality 1122. “The Romance: From Jane Austen to Chick Lit...
...last spring’s Kaavyagate was any indication that Chick Lit is in, then the Women, Gender, and Sexuality department has certainly taken notice. “The Romance: From Jane Austen to Chick Lit” will compare classic Austen novels to modern revisions such as Bridget Jones’s Diary. But don’t expect “How Opal Mehta...” to be on the syllabus...
...shop floors like Red River's where the changes are starting to show the most impressive results. Worn-out humvees used to be brought into a poorly lit, dirty and disorganized loading bay; now the vehicles move through a bright, gleaming shop floor--with American flags draped from the ceiling--in an assembly-line method, complete with a horn that blares every 23 min. to signal a move to a new station. Workers called waterspiders (named for the bugs that flit across the top of ponds) scurry back and forth to fetch tools and equipment for higher-skilled mechanics...
...conscious guests will recognize the Philippe Starck and Ferruccio Laviani furnishings throughout the property, yet local design talent takes most of the credit for the beautifully sparse look of the city's first truly hip hotel. Taiwanese architect Wei-Min Lee has housed Ambience in a 10-story neon-lit tower; local designer Ted Su (the man responsible for the look of Taipei's popular group of Roxy bar-clubs, as well as newer venues like TU and Wind) is the originator of the hotel's cool-as-ice interior...