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...there security lessons to be learned? The suddenness of the attack meant there was little time for campus authorities to interdict Kazmierczak. So the lessons may be fuzzy at most. One piece of college folklore, however, may no longer apply. After last spring's Virginia Tech shootings, students in many schools figured it'd be safer to sit in the back of the class because of the belief that most of those killed in that rampage had been at the front of their classes. No more...
...introduction, and “Arena” suggest that the exhibition will focus on the gallery as a stage for the art and its patrons, the rest of the works cast the central ideas into confusion. After “Arena,” the emphasis is no longer on the gallery definitively recast as theater. The “Hunchback Kit” is a novel idea: a do-it-yourself kit for staging “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”—which actually lacks the do-it-yourself. While about half...
...vehicle to inebriation. When the wine arrives, swirl your glass, which not only lets the wine breathe, but also gives you your first insight into the character of your drink.Look at the color, and pay attention to the legs, or the way the wine drips down the side; the longer the legs, the more alcoholic the wine. Stick your nose in the glass, inhale deeply, but don’t get your nose wet. Take your first taste. If you haven’t yet learned to label the different flavors and tastes, simply and slowly savor the experience...
Like many of my fellow students in the giant cocktail party that is Harvard, I find my particular interests hard to relate in any depth. Any statement longer than one sentence seems to hit the boredom threshold, so I’ve reduced my identity to a few key phrases. Four years of toil in the salt mines of creative writing equate to “I’ve written some stories,” while the oft-requested summary of my thesis has now diminished to the pithy “It’s about Jews...
...have tasted some recent success, but they play only eight home games each season, drawing fans from all over the football-crazed state. But as the city prepares to host the league's All-Star Game festivities this weekend, many people are wondering if the Hornets can survive much longer in New Orleans. "Look, it was a difficult market before the hurricane, there's no secret about that," says Sal Galatioto, president of Galatioto Sports Partners, an investment bank. "After, it's that much more problematic...