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Other students are participating in the creative aspect of the show. “It hit me that the students can use the ACT UP symposium as a platform where they can really take some artistic risks,” says Martin, who thinks the artistic handling of AIDS bears the situating of body in space. “My personal feeling is that the art students here and also the students interested in the arts really don’t take the same amount of risks even though we have more liberty to do so. I really wanted...
...office, which sits on a raised wooden platform and overlooks the entire space, is also practical and decorated in a contemporary fashion. An abstractly shaped blue couch, slightly reminiscent of a progressive psychiatrist’s chaise, sits in the left-hand corner. A giant desk overflowing with papers and books occupies the entire right-hand side, with a bookcase on the left to finish it off. No surprises about this...
...think Blair's international cachet would be cause for British hearts to swell with pride. But some of his most bitter opponents are homegrown. Opinion polls point to a Conservative Party victory in British parliamentary elections to be held before June 2010. The Tories will campaign on a Euroskeptic platform. A high-profile, high-powered E.U. President such as Blair would surely increase the influence of Brussels; many Conservatives also feel personal animus toward the politician whose success consigned them to the wilderness for so long. "Having President Blair would put us in a state of permanent warfare...
Witty comments aside, Khazei provided those in attendance with an extensive overview of his campaign platform, a platform that he has come to refer to as “Big Citizenship.” Khazei noted that “for too many people, the American dream has become a dream deferred,” and said that community service is the mechanism by which America could recreate itself as a land of opportunity...
...That's just one of the reasons the Nobel Committee's decision to award this year's Peace Prize to Barack Obama is such a stunning surprise. Obama has the world's most powerful platform: the White House. And you don't need a megaphone when you're the U.S. President. You speak, and people listen. (See pictures of Obama's family tree...