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...miss people, and what it is to come home.”In his poetry, Armitage has often focused on telling the stories of others, most notably in “Feltham Sings,” a 2002 documentary set in a young offenders’ institution near London. Responding to transcribed interviews with inmates, Armitage produced song lyrics for each to perform on camera, with the aim of empowering them to tell their own stories. One song began, “Brother did time, mother did time, uncle did time, now it’s my turn...
...place from which the art comes, but are they approaching it from a place that is academically rigorous,” Beran says. “Are they asking good questions?”STUDENTS TAKING ACTIONBrightly-clad figures hang in photos on the wall near the Tsai Auditorium in the Center for Government and International Studies. Sudanese refugees invite passers-by to enter their camps through photos, taken by Mia Farrow and Brian Steidle among others. The photographs—which will be moved later today—were first exhibited at the Democratic National Convention, but with...
...Judgment Day, and based on a graphic novel. The movie imagines that, in day-to-day activity, lifelike robots have mostly replaced humans, who sit at home speaking for the droids and controlling their actions. It's a piquant premise for those of us who see Americans retreating to near-stasis in front of their computers, enjoying (or condemned to) a life no more than virtual. But the main story, in which humans and robots do battle for the future of the collective soul, is familiar from many a Philip K. Dick story, like Minority Report, not to mention...
...trustee of Stonehill College, a small Catholic college near Boston...
...citadel of the auto age, the "arsenal of democracy," the nexus of technology and innovation. Today it struggles for its life: not one national chain operates a grocery store in the entire 138-sq.-mi. city limits of Detroit. The estimated functional illiteracy rate in the city limits hovers near 50%. The unsolved-murder rate is about 70%, and unemployment is around an astonishing...