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After questioning Lindsay’s latest recovery attempt, mocking Nicole Richie’s DUI, and “doodling” white dots of cocaine and semen across countless celebrity faces, Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. aka “Perez Hilton” has found his place in Hollywood. This year, the “Gossip Gangstar” awarded his namesake, Paris Hilton, the “Big Outlaw” award at VH1’s “Big in ’06” show, starred in his own GQ magazine spread...
...students from Lisa Sievert's international affairs class organized a model U.N. where they debate the practical implications of such abstract concepts as sovereignty and self-determination in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Iraq War. Sievert says many of the insights they're gathering extracurricularly while researching mock resolutions inform the class discussions, adding intellectual spice to the sessions she flavors with student-produced Power Point presentations and documentary screenings, as well as reading assignments from foreign affairs journals and memoirs of genocide survivors. Barrett required students to attend an on-campus debate on the Arab-Israeli conflict...
...PHOTOGRAPHY NOW SUSAN BRIGHT Forget twilitstill lifes and peachy nudes. The photography in Bright's lively survey of 80 artists who work with cameras has more to do with staged scenes of suburban anxiety, mock heroic tableaux of heavily armed children and the determined contemplation of whatever is enigmatic or unnerving. (There are a fair number of nudes, though none you would think to call peachy.) Thanks to Bright, you also get to enjoy the sight of Kate Moss, above, in a picture by the photo-collaborators Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, holding a lit cigarette between her toes...
...seeing the students “speak excitedly and confidently about difficult science topics that I didn’t learn until I was in college” during their final presentations.Graduate students from the Kennedy School of Government are leading an apprenticeship this semester, teaching students to run mock campaigns. This fall, a team from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) is also guiding eighth-graders in drafting designs to present at the City-Wide Design Showcase at GSD on Monday. ON THE RIGHT TRACK Schanfield says that Citizen Schools focuses on the middle school age group because...
...site Winter has set up in reaction to his injury, www.guitarherobrokemyknee.com, features a mock-serious “Letter to Red Octane Games”—well aware of the absurdity of his accident, Winter is wisely not pressing charges—complete with lines like: “While I am in love with your game, it has caused me great harm.” According to his Web site, while “shredding a massive lick,” Winter “pivoted into a great thrashing stance,” and before...