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...College looks to juggle the transition between its old Core curriculum and the new General Education program meant to replace it, the Gen Ed office has been accommodating dozens of drop-in visits and around 200 e-mails a day—including a surprising number from upperclassmen for whom the program is not mandatory. The rush seems to go beyond the normal “beginning-of-term insanity,” according to Stephanie H. Kenen, administrative director of the program in General Education. Administrators had not anticipated the number of juniors and seniors who have shown interest...
...Present Day. The trend is embraced with equal vigor by today's fashion élites, Cosgrave notes - from Marion Cotillard accepting her 2008 Academy Award in a mermaid-inspired cream dress to Michelle Obama dancing the inaugural balls away in a snowy floor-length gown. Fashion rules are meant to be broken by those who can pull it off, notes Cosgrave, and white "looks really fresh when people aren't expecting it." (See pictures of the fashion looks of Michelle Obama...
...Last month's presidential election was meant to help that. Democracy, at least, was one thing that the U.S.-led forces in the central Asian nation had managed to make work. Instead, the polls have turned into a disaster. Opposition politicians and Western diplomats allege epic-scale ballot-box stuffing, mainly by - but not exclusively - supporters of Karzai. The U.N. says votes in districts where fraud is proved to have taken place should be annulled. Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission has ordered a partial recount of the vote, citing "clear and convincing evidence of fraud." Karzai's closest challenger, Abdullah...
About a week after their initial placement in the yard, we wondered, how are the colored chairs doing? We know they are meant to serve as a "new form of gathering space," so are they performing...
...independently of music and sometimes the dancers wouldn’t hear the music until the night of the concert. You would have them happen at the same time and whatever would happen, would happen, so a lot of it was… not accidental, but incidental. It also meant it was different every night. It’s a very different way of thinking about choreography.The guest choreographers who I asked to work with me have a similar sensibility to me in the way they choreograph. They’re very musical choreographers, and their movement is very thoughtful...