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PRESIDENT BUSH, explaining to House Republicans why he wants to model his Social Security reform on the savings plan offered to federal workers, according to a senior Administration official...
...From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons," toured Europe to spread the not unreasonable idea that Dali was a significant precursor of Pop and postmodernism. In the same spirit he is being re-examined by academics and curators as a pioneer of the artist as public performer, role model par excellence for Andy Warhol and Koons. It might not seem like a good thing to re-emerge as the original media whore, but there's no denying Dali's role in making showmanship an art-world career tactic...
It’s good to remember that the reason our Houses are not just dormitories is that they started out life as quite distinct entities. Modeled on English colleges, they featured professors who resided within the colleges and dined in the dining halls. Pertile points out that “the ancient model of professor… was single and dedicated almost entirely to the College and its students. He is very rare, almost non-existent [now].” Of course, with changes in professorial life (and especially in the expectations that weigh upon them: more research, less...
China Care clubs have already been started based on the Harvard model at Yale and Brown. Harvard China Care Co-President Aidan S. Madigan-Curtis ’06 said she was hoping to reach more schools through the conference...
...teems with slum dwellers too poor to afford even bicycles. As Shanghai tries to address the needs of its own multiplying population, some are worried that the same mistakes could be replicated in the city's planned satellite towns. "Each of these [foreign-themed] towns wants to follow the model of quick development," says Zheng Shilong, a professor at Shanghai's Tongji University, who helped advise the municipal government on the formation of these new suburbs. "But just building an expensive residential development won't make an entire community come together." What's more, because Shanghai is a trendsetter...