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...strobe light, and Bruce Nauman’s attempts to “see the night” help to propel the viewer through a tumultuous journey that challenges vision’s dominance of vision over the other senses. M.I.T.’s effort achieves something rare??a contemporary art exhibition that is both accessible and meaningful.“Sensorium” is presented in two parts. Part 1, on display in MIT’s List Visual Arts Center from Oct. 12 to Dec. 31, features artists Mathieu Briand, Janet Cardiff/George Bures Miller, Ryoji...
...abortion debates. Most Americans—pro-life and pro-choice—don’t like abortion and they especially don’t praise the procedure itself. What Americans do disagree on is whether it should be permitted—“safe, legal, and rare?? or not at all. Ms. Magazine celebrates a tragedy and in doing so weaves a farce. The women in Ms. Magazine are B-list abortion celebrities. They want to thrust their lives onto the world, get their pictures taken, and be talked about. They have taken a grave...
...first—as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute during the 2003-2004 academic year.Elkins, in her fifth year in the Harvard history department, does not have tenure, according to Andrew Gordon, chair of the department. Gordon noted that “it’s probably pretty rare?? for a non-tenured professor to win an award of this caliber. Geraldine Brooks, currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “March,” a novel that imagines a year in the life of the absent father...
...think it was a step in the right direction that he was chosen first team All-America by all the major governing bodies,” Sullivan said. “Something like that is rare from an Ivy League player.”But just how rare??NFL draft pick rare, or Ivy running back and Rhodes Scholar rare??remains to be seen.—Staff writer Timothy J. McGinn can be reached at mcginn@fas.harvard.edu...
...talent pie. Most years that superfluous skill will guide the two teams to a one-two finish in the league. Some seasons, however, one of the two squads will get tripped up, despite the talent disparity, and drop some winnable games. But it’s exceedingly rare??the 1999 season comes to mind—for both of the league’s giants to slip up at the same time...