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...Colbert urged his audience to vandalize a Wikipedia entry about elephants to prove the point that in a model where any user can edit encyclopedia entries, those entries are only as good as their source. Take the case of retired journalist John Seigenthaler, a former assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was wrongfully accused of involvement in the assassination of Robert and John Kennedy by an anonymous Wikipedia contributor in 2005. Given the controversy stirring around Wikipedia, the history department at Middlebury College has banned its use as a research source. When did the online form of the dust...
...general who led Thailand's first coup in 15 years, Sonthi Boonyaratglin is projecting a deliberately civilian image. Dressed in a dapper dark suit and yellow tie, Sonthi eschewed his usual army uniform for his Feb. 27 meeting with TIME's Hannah Beech and Robert Horn. But a suit, no matter how handsome, cannot suspend the reality that a military junta, called the Council for National Security (CNS), now runs the country. The CNS ousted elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra last Sept. 19. At first, the overthrow of the billionaire P.M. was greeted with much public acclaim. Today, however...
...foreigner essentially, there’s an element of being an outsider to the culture here.” Early on, Cutmore-Scott began to think that some of his college experiences would make for some funny scenes in a play. In October, he teamed up with friend Robert E.T. Tainsh III ’10 to begin creating a framework for the script of “Fall.” Cutmore-Scott says that “Fall” was greatly influenced by a play that he saw last summer which lacked typical structure and formality...
...hovers at the top of the canvas dripping color like a pair of wet blue jeans, has a classic simplicity that suggests Mark Rothko or even Henri Matisse. For years, critics have been mentioning Majerus in the same sentence as contemporary giants like Ellsworth Kelly, Claes Oldenburg, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol - if only because he stole shamelessly from them. Majerus "quotes, spits out and recycles modernism," enthuses Mudam director Marie-Claude Beaud. "His painting seems to be cultivated, sensitive and trashy all at the same time...
...voyeurs from the earnest exercisers. Those who make the cut are encouraged, but not forced, to go full-frontal for the first class. Not that anyone’s complaining. “Clothes feel restrictive for exercise that involves so much stretching and twisting,” writes Robert B. Dimmick in an e—mail. That’s not to say that the class is free from the inevitable balls to the mirror-lined wall awkwardness: “If I feel drawn to look at a particular man, I might notice that and feel self...