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...Aboriginal showcase will bring unprecedented attention to this diverse and dynamic art form. It will also highlight an amazing story of cultural survival, with traditional lifestyles often being maintained on the earnings from art production. "Aboriginal art has been the one shining light that people have been able to refer to when they talk about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander achievements," says Paul Sweeney, manager of Papunya Tula Artists, the oldest and most successful of the desert art centers, "and it's getting knocked about a bit at the moment." Industry observers blame a small number of rogue traders working...
Officials insist that the NSA is not eavesdropping on the millions of law-abiding Americans whose phone records it has collected but merely compiling what the telephone companies refer to as "call detail" information, recording what number called what number, when and for how long. "It's just digits," insists a White House official. "Just a bunch of data, a bunch of numbers." But while the information that is being turned over to the government does not include the identities of those who own the phone numbers on either end of a call, that is often easy enough to figure...
While the chance to save money in an industry notorious for wafer-thin margins draws new members, many veterans say the group's greatest value is its camaraderie and exchange of ideas. Dine Originals restaurateurs frequently refer customers to one another and eat at other member restaurants when they travel. During their four months together, Lathrop and the Von Rutenbergs shared recipes and taste tests in addition to kitchen counters. "We started to feel like part of their family," says Lathrop. Those ties remain: the Von Rutenbergs' restaurant now serves Lathrop's cheesecakes...
...when Irish rocker Bono exclaimed, “this is really, really fucking brilliant” during the 2003 Golden Globe Awards, the FCC excused the expletive because it was not used to refer...
...dare denounce Opal Mehta? I refer, of course, to “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” the recently published chick-lit novel by sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 that first became famous for its singular inception, and then infamous for its not-so-singular authorship. The book’s merits and demerits aside, it is, in many respects, a product of Harvard and a reflection of our community...