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...From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons," toured Europe to spread the not unreasonable idea that Dali was a significant precursor of Pop and postmodernism. In the same spirit he is being re-examined by academics and curators as a pioneer of the artist as public performer, role model par excellence for Andy Warhol and Koons. It might not seem like a good thing to re-emerge as the original media whore, but there's no denying Dali's role in making showmanship an art-world career tactic...
...students linked together in one vast electronic embrace are too great to imagine. Harvard men and women alike would be able to finally take advantage of one of the reasons that convinced them to go here in the first place: Boston’s status as a college town par excellence...
Perhaps worse than the bell curve’s rigid predestination is that the curve stifles students’ interest in the material and actually ensures a sub par effort from many undergraduates. A friend of mine recently provided me with an example. She was assigned her first paper for a class, and was determined to do well on it. She spent a week outlining, drafting, rewriting—making sure she had covered every point and counterpoint, every nuance in her paper. The result of this incredible effort was a B+. When the next paper was assigned, she decided...
...predecessor. The Ukrainian economy is a haven for venality and insider deals: as the U.S. State Department puts it, its economy "remains burdened by excessive government regulation, corruption and lack of law enforcement." The anticorruption watchdog Transparency International calls it one of the world's most corrupt countries, on par with Sudan and just above Iraq. Still, others are confident that Yushchenko is committed to transforming Ukraine's corrupt economy and institutions into a more robust democracy. Mykola Yakovyna, a key campaign staffer, said: "There is much more to Yushchenko than meets the eye." He may at times seem soft...
...women’s suffrage and will question a child’s mental capacity to make an informed decision. Mental capacity is not, however, listed in our laws as a requisite for voting rights. Nowhere in America are citizens barred from voting on account of their sub-par IQs. Further, there is no test of a citizen’s knowledge about issues prior to voting. The democratic ideal is that all citizens of a nation deserve a vote, regardless of their perceived competence or wisdom. It is not up to some elevated intellectual group to decide national policy...