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...free speech, with both sublime and ridiculous results. As The Kite Runner's producers hinted, it's crucial for art. It's also the backbone of ideals like democracy and human rights, as well as the protector of rather more tawdry material like reality TV and Internet porn. We reward those who reveal their private lives. When Oprah Winfrey spoke of her childhood sexual abuse, she became a goddess in a society convinced that it's good to talk. While thousands of courageous Muslims regularly speak out on taboo subjects, the reception is often not so warm. Five years...
...Harvard economics professor has embraced them as a possible incentive rather than a distraction. At a lecture on Oct. 10, Professor Roland G. Fryer Jr. told students in Economics 1816 “Race in America” about a plan he is working on that would reward high-performing public school students with cell phones and cell phone minutes, according to multiple students in the class who asked not to be named because Fryer stressed the plan’s confidentiality to them. The project is part of an initiative, introduced by New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg...
...arbiters of Asian art didn't always reward such experimentalism. In the great art academies of India, China and Vietnam, technical skill and an ability to reference the region's rich cultural heritage outweighed social commentary or renegade brush strokes. For centuries, Chinese students spent their school years laboriously copying the ink landscapes of ancient masters. The same held true in India, where artistic merit often was equated either with an ability to reproduce themes from religious epics or mimic the miniaturist details of the Mughals. In Vietnam, the 20th century's most promising painters attended the École...
...reward has gone to politicians in the past, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., as well as television news anchor Katie Couric...
...Perhaps as a reward for this revenue-producing strategy, the hardball gods stuck it to Selig by having teams that play in two of the coldest major league cities, Denver and Boston, advance to a Series that could creep into November. A seventh game, if necessary, would be played on November 1 at Boston's Fenway Park...