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...physical, cultural, metaphysical, and social entity”—a topic as philosophical and subtle as the title of the course. Yet the studio is pulsing with energy: Performance art, sculpture, installations, and video are being used to examine themes as diverse as the nervous system and pregnancy. Visiting Professor Tishan Hsu circulates through the chaos, talking about a specialized type of rope with one student and helping another with a misbehaving drill bit. Asked to discuss the theme of his class, Hsu jokes, “In 20 words or less?” He goes...
...movement and access." A top-level Israeli team arrived at her hotel about 1 a.m., producing a round of "elevator diplomacy" between Israeli and Palestinian delegations ensconced on different floors of the hotel. While she waited for one group to go and the next to arrive, Rice, full of nervous energy, paced the hall, popping in on junior staffers as they typed or proof-read. ?Condi never got tired, never lost her edge or here sense of humor,? says a State Department negotiator. By 4:30 am the parties had agreed in principle. Rice allowed herself a two-hour...
...kind of fighting together the whole race,” Scherf said. “It was really up for grabs.” While Scherf has had a strong season to this point, there were no guarantees in the race Saturday. “I was pretty nervous going in, because our region is probably the toughest out of all of them,” Scherf said. “With all the tremendous competition, you really have to be concerned about making sure you qualify.” The other runners for the Crimson all placed within...
...overtly confirmed every step of the way. The first punch event was a cocktail party at an art gallery downtown. All the members I met were nice and polite and had cool things to say. We drank whiskey and smoked cigarettes and made the owners of the art gallery nervous. I had fun. As I went to the next few events similar things kept happening. I met some guys that I liked, some guys that I didn’t, and found myself moving on to the next step in the process. I saw and did some stupid things, like...
...Even for Election Eve, Kilgore is unusually nervous. On Tuesday night, he will either be Governor-elect of the Old Dominion, one of the nation's most reliably Republican states, or poster boy for his national party's woes heading into next year's mid-term elections. "We can't even win in Virginia?" Republicans will be asking themselves if the former state attorney general does not pull it out in his neck-and-neck race against the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Timothy M. Kaine. "The conventional wisdom will be that the Republicans are on the verge of a massive meltdown...