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...near life-size, black silhouette in Walker's current Carpenter Center exhibition features a black man hunched over a banjo, a long drop of drool descending from his distended lower lip. Behind him, a kerchief-capped girl reaches to turn the enormous screw-key sprouting from his back like that of a wind up doll. Recalling the tradition of black minstrelsy, the key also suggests a brutally-planed pair of scissors--a silhouette cutter's tool craftily inscribed within the silhouette. This image alone might be taken as an icon for the controversy surrounding Walker's work, as viewers question...
Times are changing, though, and the expansion of shopping centers near DowntownCrossing coupled with Chinatown business "growingby leaps and bounds" has put the squeeze on theCombat Zone from both sides, driving up rents forthe strip clubs and erotic shops, Quinn says...
...went for a beautiful walk today and learned that there is a large Portuguese population near Inman Square that makes wonderful bread. I am happy, and I learned more than I could have by writing the paper...
...considerable charm to smooth Benjamin Netanyahu?s ruffled feathers when he visits Israel next month to encourage the Mideast peace process. The Israeli leader yesterday canceled dinner with British foreign secretary Robin Cook -- refusing even a public handshake -- after Mr. Cook met with a Palestinian leader near a disputed Israeli settlement in Arab East Jerusalem...
...over 6,000 alumni and alumnae volunteers and our undergraduate student recruiters have worked exceeding hard, using recruitment efforts that were unimagined a quarter century ago. The use of direct mail, cooperative travel with other colleges, and vastly expanded spring travel to communicate with the many juniors who are near the final stages of choosing a college (not beginning the process as with previous generations) are now a necessary part of a responsive and vital admissions outreach program. It is unlikely there will soon be another large jump in Early Action applications similar to the one stimulated, ironically, by some...