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...mention the Bradley effect without also alluding to a more modern, and possibly more significant, effect: the cell-phone effect. Polling is done by telephone to land-line customers. Surveys don't reach those who have abandoned land lines for cell phones - voters who are by and large younger and less prejudiced. While Bradley-effect voters may lean Republican, the unsurveyed cell-phone-effect voters will be leaning, and voting, Democratic. Chris Chrisman, Los Angeles
...Perhaps because Barber himself is a gifted photographer, the site is photo-heavy and characterized by the now-standard downtown blend of the High and the Low. Life’s outtakes are elevated to the level of art, and art, with greater intention, is made accessible to the modern viewer. Tinyvices is written in “Seinfeld”-era HTML, with simple hyperlinks assigning each work its own independent page against a black background. It is as if the site is consciously positing itself at odds with the sanctified white-walled world of Chelsea galleries and international...
Danny Boyle, the director of Trainspotting, 28 Days Later and Millions collaborates with Simon Beaufoy, the screenwriter of The Full Monty and Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - surely we're in for some all-British shenanigans. But no, this is a social epic set in modern India, when Bombay became Mumbai and the new techno-wealth began to contrast ever more sharply with the crushing, enduring poverty of the masses...
...Science and Society” track, allows students to combine medical school requirements with a more holistic look at health through a social and humanities angle. Shapin said that the creation of this option reflects the trend of senior theses about biomedicine’s role in the modern world...
...transmission of emotion through dance is a daunting task, especially when the artist has a bare stage, minimalist costumes, and no props to actualize his vision. Yet the visualization of the human soul through movement is the root of modern dance. It is an art whose realization demands nothing less than the seamless fusion of creative construction, flawless technical execution, and flashes of spontaneity in performance. The Boston Conservatory Dance Theater’s fall production, which featured Conservatory upperclassmen in three world premieres as well as an excerpt from Martha Graham’s classic “Chronicle...