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...panel of Washington insiders discussed issues pertaining to the upcoming presidential election, ranging from the weblog phenomenon to the future of a two-party system, at the Institute of Politics (IOP) last night. Speakers included former Howard Dean campaign manager and IOP fellow Joe Trippi and Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek Evan Thomas ’73, who is also a visiting professor at the Kennedy School. Trippi—who has been credited with harnessing the internet to reinvent modern political campaigns—emphasized the importance of blogs in the spread of news and information...
...Takubo found almost hypnotic. He was similarly captivated by the fact that many of the flowers had some petals that were browning at the edge, or had leaves that had been ravaged by insects, while other petals or leaves on the same plant were pristine in their perfection?another phenomenon, he reasoned, that would rarely occur in nature. It was this combination of the hyperreal and the unreal, he says, that "taught me art is about possibility, about creating something from nothing, even things that don't really exist." Inspired, Takubo went on to build an eclectic career...
...MACK, 74, controversial Pulitzer Prize-winning psychiatrist; after being hit by a drunk driver; in London. Mack, a Harvard Medical School professor, was best known for his studies of people who claimed to have had alien encounters. His 1994 book on the subject, which concluded that "the abduction phenomenon has important philosophical, spiritual and social implications," caused Harvard to consider censure, but a committee later "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic freedom." DIED. RICHARD AVEDON, 81, celebrated art and fashion photographer; of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Antonio, Texas. DIED. KATHARINA DALTON, 87, British gynecologist and early expert...
...certainly a phenomenon," says Julie Gilhart, vice president and fashion director at Barneys New York. "Many of the designers at [New York City's] Parsons School of Design, where I critique, are Asian." Gilhart says they have a different "demeanor" from extroverted fashion personalities like designer Zac Posen. "They're very serious," she says, "and much more internal...
Mostly, though, Som thinks that the current rash of Asian designers and design students in the U.S. is a generational phenomenon. "My parents had more pressure on them to become doctors or lawyers. With this generation there is an open-minded feeling in terms of what you can pursue as a career," he explains. So it is that many Asians, both here and abroad, are entering into fashion and design...