Word: public
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...almost feel that if the Nobel Prize were conferred on Jacques Derrida, hed start talking like Bill Cosby on Picture Pages. Laureates become the public faces of literature, and they start acting like publicizers instead of writers and scholars: what results can be something as banal and clichŽ-ridden as Nadine Gordimers regrettable new release, Living in Hope and History...
Layton is one of only eight students currently teaching in Boston-area high schools and middle schools as the culmination of Harvard's Undergraduate Teacher Education Program (UTEP). Layton will graduate in June with a degree in English as well as certification to teach secondary school English in public schools...
...lively venue for visual and performance art. Luckily, they have since found lodgings in an abandoned warehouse in Fort Point large enough to accommodate two gallery spaces and 50 artists' studios. Despite such switches, this sporadically nomadic institution continues its commitment to sharing "adventurous" contemporary art with the general public through an admirable number of community outreach and school programs. Boasting an impressive roster of guest curators, The Revolving Museum also shows reliably interesting exhibitions by regional and member artists. Make the trek to see the art--and to chat with the resident artists wandering genially about the halls...
...whine and moan about the state of American public education. Why, then, do so few students choose to do something about it? To many of us, who have found our niche in the classroom, teaching seems like the obvious and easiest way to give back...
Students were not entirely surprised by the retraction. Rumors have circulated for weeks that one or two of the attacks were bogus, according to junior Marni Hanlon. And Brooslin noted that the scene of the falsified crime--a public area in the center of the campus--is not a likely spot for a violent assault...