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...Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul (Yale University Press; 400 pages). Reid, editor of the Americas section of the Economist, concedes that Latin America's chronic ills, especially its inequality between rich and poor, are among the world's worst. But his comparison of past and present yields a more sanguine picture: the region is "one of the world's most important testing laboratories for the viability of democratic capitalism as a global project." Reid insists that Latin America's democratic and capitalist reforms are the right path; he notes that Brazil's poverty rate dropped from...
Another import from Italy was the still life, and some of the most haunting canvases in this show are the paintings by Juan Sánchez Cotán. His practice was not so much to present as to isolate a few vegetables and pieces of fruit on a shelf or suspend them above it on strings. All are sharply lit before a deep black background, the simplest products of creation, not just seen but beheld, and summoning us from the darkness. What should we make of the mysterious gravity in these pictures? Perhaps just that in fiercely religious Spain, even...
Cantabrigian Laurence Atkins implored the school committee and Superintendent Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, as he has done in previous meetings, to present the public with the “Student Data Report...
...says Samuel Shapiro ’08, a special concentrator in that field. Shapiro says that crafting a concentration specifically targeted in his field of interest facilitated his applications to graduate school.STRADDLING DISCIPLINESFor most special concentrators, however, it is the desire to explore interests in the present that drives their decision, not plans for the future. Although secondary fields and joint concentrations also allow students to study different disciplines, it is only in special concentrations that students can combine their interests into a single course of study. “We should be gravitating toward more interdisciplinary studies rather than...
...case in point: the day after his unfortunate bowling excursion (where he scored a measly 47) Obama visited an agricultural facility in State College. In some campaign staffer's imagination the scene of the candidate in shirtsleeves feeding a bottle to a baby cow was a good way to present Obama-the-everyman. But with the media decked out in little blue protective booties, and Obama self-consciously patting the animal, the scene was uncomfortable for everybody but the calf...