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That was the notion behind X-Men: a school for mutants, run by Professor Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), mind bender and father figure. Director Bryan Singer's first XMen, a hit from summer 2000, was basically Men in Black from the point of view of the humanly challenged: sure, the earth is overrun by odd creatures, but we must nurture them and harness their strengths, not send out the feds on an ethnic-cleansing orgy...
...will play in violin concertos, act in Shakespeare classics and dance in student-choreographed numbers. But come next week, Harvard will return to its traditional policy of neglect and utter lack of institutional support. As curricular review kicks off its examination of undergraduate education, Harvard must challenge its restrictive notion of “liberal arts” and construct an arts curriculum to meet growing student demand...
...artists are quick to dispute the notion that the arts aren’t an intellectual process. Several people suggested the arts are in a place similar to where laboratory sciences were a century ago. In the 19th century, scientific research would never have received academic credit; only the study of the history of science was material for the classroom. Some study of the practice arts emerged at the recommendation of the 1955 Brown Report, a still-cited product of a committee on the visual arts at Harvard chaired by John Nicholas Brown. The Brown report attempted to debunk what...
This linking of food to culture—the notion of an authentic Mexican restaurant based on an authentic Mexican culture—led Huerta to focus on the Mexican restaurants in Chicago, with its sizable population of Mexican-Americans. After talking with the owners of mostly family-owned restaurants, as well as studying the menus of these same establishments, Huerta says that she realized that there are discernible contradictions to be found in the menus and personal narratives. The pictures, symbols and language employed in the menus, as well as in the decor of restaurants, all try to project...
...America moves forward in the war on terror, thoughtful criticism is of course healthy. But the notion that President Bush wants to build “an empire at gunpoint” is fundamentally misguided. In Iraq, U.S. occupying forces will only stay temporarily, until law and order is restored, the necessary humanitarian and reconstruction aid arrives and a responsible, free government—run by Iraqis—can take over. After that, they will gradually leave...