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...launch Clinton on his way to the White House in 1992. "This election was a whole lot more complicated. It was so close that it's unlikely to be a learning experience for Democrats. I suspect there'll be more finger pointing than soul searching. And that's a shame." For Reed and other so-called New Democrats who struggle to keep the party from veering too far to the left, Kerry was a vast improvement over Howard Dean, who rode a wave of antiwar and anti-Bush sentiment to prominence before crashing in the primaries. But, insists Reed, Kerry...
Jane Blocker of the University of Minnesota took the assembled crowd in a completely different direction than traitorous produce. Her lecture “The Shame of Biological Being: Ann Hamilton, Molecular Biology, and the Flush of Subjectivity” discussed renowned artist Hamilton’s installation of an interactive lighting piece on the new molecular biology building of the University of Minnesota...
Blocker, who has always been fascinated by digital media and issues of performance in her work, was immediately intrigued by Hamilton’s project. Her curiosity about the conceptual connections between the blushing of a building, the shame of a Holocaust victim and the issues of existential subjectivity brought into new focus by the decoding of the human genome led her to some unexpected and riveting parallels...
...watching old lecture videos” will become a popular hobby any time soon, but the resource presents intriguing possibilities. Not since the heady days of “School House Rock” has education provided so many laughs, and there’s no shame in taking advantage of it. Indeed, Glauber—whose light-saber dueling produced the blood-curdling scream in September—has been favorably compared to “Bill Nye the Science...
...shame that Mr. Peres’s prestige as well as that of the venue have overshadowed the reason behind the event. However, perhaps this speaks more to the initiative’s success: fostering true dialogue across the academic and Boston community about the Middle East conflict and the challenges facing democracies in the 21st century. Additional universities currently scheduled for Caravan for Democracy (a joint initiative of Jewish National Fund, Media Watch International and Hamagshimim) this year include the American University, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA and Ohio State with...