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MCAS opponents also object to the test's format, saying it affects the school calendar and curriculum...

Author: By Andrew S. Holbrook, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Parents Protest, Students Boycott as MCAS Rolls On | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...should keep in mind that "Sanitation" was probably a rushed creation, most likely developed after the Sensation spectacle of last December. But this does not excuse "Sanitation" as a work of art. Unlike Haacke's earlier works, there is no consideration for ecology; every object in "Sanitation" seems unjustifiably placed, like Darwin without niche theory. Never do the rectilinear and exclusionary lines formulate a cohesive composition. All in all, the composition is balanced to the point of fragmentation, making it difficult to view the exhibit as a whole. The only exception to the excess of orthogonality is Haacke's diagonal...

Author: By Teri Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Report from New York | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

...risk of sounding like Ronald Reagan in his famous fable of the Christmas pony in the manure pile. A person must have access to optimism - not often an available grace in areas of great poverty and disease (the African AIDS belt, for example). And it depends what the object of your optimism is. An optimist who hopes to start a flourishing small business is different from an optimist who hopes to blow himself to heaven by driving a car bomb into the Great Satan's military barracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Some Countries Succeed and Others Don't | 5/10/2000 | See Source »

...queen (who puts most formal-goers to shame with her swanky leggy machinations on stage) requesting that the town's lost and found office search for her boss' missing penis, which had fallen off the previous night when s/he was watching a wrestling match. Never actually mentioning the lost object by name, the lost and found description becomes a search "for an object that is soft, but can get hard, and is of tremendous importance...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lympdick: Standing Tall | 5/5/2000 | See Source »

...couple of spectacularly slow months in the nation's newsrooms - there was nothing to hold us back, so we stampeded down to Miami with our microphones amped and our camera lights blazing. Six months later, according to the media mavens at Newswatch.org, Elian has become the most covered media object since O. J. Simpson, surpassing JFK Jr. and even Diana in network stories. Various networks and CNN have cut a deal with the Miami relatives allowing cameras into the house, should INS officials or federal marshals finally make a move to retrieve Elian. The New York Times reports that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elian Event, or How to Hype a Sorry Spectacle | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

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