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...appreciation through a spreadsheet and come up with an economic justification for their patronage. "For every dollar spent on cultural activities, another $1.80 is spent on related activities such as food and hospitality," notes the Ministry of Information, Communications and The Arts (MITA) in a paper promoting the "new paradigm" of art as cultural capital. After years of favoring maths and sciences over cultural education, it seems the only way the government can view the arts is through that same quantitative prism: in Singapore, art apparently sounds like a cash register's ka-ching. "Singapore views culture as having economic...
...goal to which we all, as concerned and conscientious citizens, should aspire. Whether serving in the armed forces, entering the diplomatic corps, or merely performing the quotidian tasks of voting and paying taxes, each citizen’s individual contribution to our country is what makes America the paradigm of republican government our founding fathers intended. That the Harvard community has refused to support ROTC “financially or directly” marginalizes and trivializes the sacrifices that Harvard’s cadets make, and the irreplaceable services that they provide to this school and this country...
...watch our language and resist easy generalizations whenever they may occur. Dismissive of intellectual modesty, academia and government still suffer these pitfalls, speaking expansively, rather than narrowly and concretely. As individual Americans, we have the opportunity—if not the obligation—to foster a new paradigm whereby scholars and policymakers take after a public that respects the complexity of the issues and approaches them with limited goals. Collectively, we should set the standard, encouraging further questioning, rather than accepting easy appeasement through comfortable theories...
...course, the mere suggestion that the Atkins diet and others like it are worthy of scientific attention still makes many experts bristle. Yet it is also clear that the low-fat paradigm has developed some cracks in its facade. It turns out that not all fats are bad for you. Those found in fish, nuts and certain vegetables may actually increase your chances of living a good long life. By the same token, not all diets that are low in fat are necessarily healthy--as anyone who has ever truly considered the difference between a low-fat banana cream...
...says what he and Barenboim have put together is "one of the most important things I have done in my life. The orchestra is nonpolitical and has no ulterior motive. It doesn't pretend to be building bridges and all that hokey stuff. But there it is, a paradigm of coherent and intelligent living together." The €600,000 that it cost to bring the orchestra to Seville for three weeks, along with Barenboim and 10 music teachers from Berlin and Chicago - he directs Berlin's Deutsche Staatsoper and conducts the Chicago Symphony - comes from the Three Mediterranean Cultures Foundation...