Word: note
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...Editor's Note...
...little and scattered is what many educators feel Harvard's core provides. The University of Massachusetts' Duffey describes its effect on learning as modest. Harvard, he says, does not "seem any closer to making judgments about the qualities of an educated mind." Others note that with the core, a student may graduate from Harvard without having read a word of Shakespeare, the Bible or the U.S. Constitution...
...this show, the best of which go well beyond the confines of illustration. Indeed, four of the photographers -- Harry Gruyaert, Alex Webb, Rio Branco and Jeff Jacobson -- are represented largely by shots that have never even accompanied a story. For one thing, many of these pictures strike a note sounded earlier by photographers like Lee Friedlander and the late Garry Winogrand, men who used the documentary approach for more personal ends. In the 1960s they discovered from snapshots (and from the groundbreaking work of Robert Frank) how the eccentricities of naive picture taking -- the awkward gestures, the uncomposed views...
What their pictures prove is that in the right hands Kodachrome can go to the heart of an important paradox: that suffering can happen in sensual settings, that a place can be cruel and inviting all at once. This is something different from the plain bass note of tragedy played in black-and- white photography. Just as the world does, these sweet-and-sour pictures leave us to face the contradictory visual facts and to sort them out for ourselves. The chance to sharpen the moral faculties may be this show's most unlooked for benefit. Any exhibit can introduce...
Last week, however, the office of Mexican Attorney General Sergio Garcia Ramirez virtually conceded that mistreatment had indeed taken place. It named eleven Jalisco police officers suspected of "abusing authority and inflicting injuries" in the Cortez case. At the same time, though, Mexico sent a sharp note to Washington contending that Cortez had overstepped his authority. Angered by the charge, U.S. officials replied that Cortez had acted in accordance with well-known and accepted DEA practices. They bitterly pointed out that none of the eleven officers had yet been arrested. Above all, they found Mexico's continuing show of defensiveness...