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...ultimate proof of Xavier's continued appeal, however, is the pilgrims from Europe and across Asia who are swelling Goa this month. Last week, as Xavier's body was borne shoulder high from the Basilica of Bom Jesus to the Se Cathedral, where it is being displayed, two onlookers attempted conversation as they squashed and squinted for a glimpse. "Christian?" asked the young Indian woman in a bright purple sari. "Christian," confirmed the elderly South Korean man in his baseball cap, shorts and trainers. "Xavier?" inquired the woman. "Hero," smiled...
...make it easier to have and raise children tend to have higher fertility rates than those that don't. The parade example is France, which after Ireland has the highest rate in Europe, 1.89. "France has always had a strong family policy," says demographer Marie-Thérèse Letablier of the Center for Employment Studies near Paris. In its present form, that means women bearing their first child get a paid and job-protected maternity leave of 16 weeks as well as a palette of allowances to help out with everything from education to housing to transportation...
...Design, Josép Lluis Sert (also reincarnated as puppet) recommended Le Corbusier for the job. The building, built to house the nascent VES department, was to become a laboratory for creativity and a catalyst for the understanding of art at Harvard. The Carpenter Center as synthèse des arts was a utopian challenge for Corbusier, whose recent and no less idealistic project of designing a home for the fledging United Nations had fallen prey to the horns of bureaucracy...
First, a disclaimer: We do not think that Norwood’s findings are false, per se. The professor’s paper, entitled “Legitimating Nazism: Harvard University and the Hitler Regime,” contains some damning accusations against Harvard and in particular former University President, James B. Conant ’14. And Norwood is probably on point about many of the anti-Semitic attitudes and actions endorsed by individual Harvard professors, students and alumni during the 1930s. This is, of course, a sad fact of history. But that Norwood singles out Harvard...
...this remains true even if the artist wants to thematize meaninglessness and doesn’t mean anything), but the work itself has little substance, so even after you have figured out its meaning you are left with the feeling that it is not very meaningful per se. Thus, I think it’s possible for contemporary practice to be more thematically pregnant than “outsider” art (it is easier to understand the artists intentions) but actually less meaningful (there does not seem to be much of the artist himself invested...