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...grand opening of E-flux Video Rental at the Carpenter Center may not provide much competition for Blockbuster, but it does afford unprecedented access to an enormous library of hard-to-obtain video art. Having traveled to Amsterdam, Seoul, and Miami, among other cities, the E-flux Video Rental (EVR) project is now making its final stop at Harvard. EVR is an installation of video art compiled and selected by respected curators from the world over. According to the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) website, the program is “an intervention in the circulation and distribution of artists?...
...store’s core business. But the scene of last week is indicative of a larger problem that has little to do with the Coop, or even the UC. The problem is that professors are not taking simple steps to make it easy for their students to obtain course books at low cost. The solution is almost too obvious: professors should publish the ISBN numbers of course-required texts in syllabi and course-wide emails in order to facilitate easy ordering by students. This is not an unreasonable request, given that professors submit their reading lists to the Coop...
Saying there was “no way” he could return to Baghdad to obtain a “G” passport and that his entire family had emigrated and couldn’t do it for him, Dewachi is now making efforts to obtain a travel document from the Canadian government that would identify him as “stateless,” and allow him to get the visa stamp to pass into the United States...
...work to get. It’s almost intellectual property.” The process of isolating the appropriate ISBN number for a particular course textbook, the manager said, involves multiple phone calls to professors and publishers. Student-set prices would not reflect the time and resources necessary to obtain the ISBN. This undercutting, he added, would be injurious to other students, who would have to deal with tightened restrictions on textbook returns. Hadfield, however, said he suspected different motivations for ISBN-withholding on the part of the Coop. “The Coop charges too much for textbooks...
...picnic and a sense of exclusivity. Glyndebourne is the oldest of the élite, followed by Garsington and, since 1998, Grange Park, which keeps up with the others on all counts - setting, performances, food and a dapper audience. While they all have priority booking for members, the public can obtain tickets months before the season starts - but be quick, since availability is limited...