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DIED. VINE DELORIA, 72, sardonic scholar widely regarded as the century's most influential Native American thinker, writer and activist; of complications from an aortic aneurysm; in Denver. In more than 20 books, most famously the 1969 manifesto Custer Died for Your Sins, the Standing Rock Sioux debunked stereotypes and articulated the legitimacy of Native American intellectual and spiritual beliefs, once noting, "We have brought the white man a long...
...Monday morning, the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) released a statement condemning the move, which it decried as part of “a narrow and politically charged agenda.” Left-leaning campus media, too, raised objections to the legislation, calling it a “pointless political manifesto.” The UC makes strange bedfellows, indeed.What has transpired this week has not been debate about workers’ wages themselves, nor should it have been. Rather, we’ve been confronted with an important question about the purpose and function of the UC. Do we want...
Pressing to move beyond the controversy that ensnarled his presidency last semester, Lawrence H. Summers yesterday released his first-ever state of the University letter, a lengthy manifesto that appeared intended to demonstrate the progress he has made in four years as president as well as placate the fiercest faculty critics of his administration...
...pointed to - dada - has many meanings: "hobbyhorse" in French, "cube" in certain Italian dialects and "yes, yes" in Slavic languages. That night, they agreed on a name but continued to dispute what the word - and the movement - signified. Tristan Tzara, a Romanian poet and the author of the Dada Manifesto of 1918, came up with what may be the only accurate definition: "Dada means nothing." That presents the curators of a new exhibition of Dadaism with a wonderful opportunity: to define the undefinable through the remarkably varied work the Dadaists produced. And produce the Dadaists did - collages, letters, manifestos, music...
...that has been written, including his own autobiography-manifesto, The Road Ahead, the real Bill Gates has remained elusive, even to those of us who have met him. Because his success stems so much from his personality, the many articles that have appeared in the business and trade press have often seemed wanting. So too have television's occasional efforts to tell the Gates story focused predictably on canned vignettes and snippets of gossip...