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...article denied that students had been beaten in Beijing last week when they staged a sit-in at the gates of the Communist Party headquarters. An Associated Press reporter saw police hit six students...
...Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe presents the newest Quad outdoor sculptural installation, Gargoyles, by Bert Snow, a Somerville sculptor. The visiting artist at Cabot House, Snow has created Gargoyles to perch on top of the Georgian style dormitories. A dormer-window inspired sculpture, Gargoyles will sit more than 40 feet above the Quad and will respond to variances in the wind. A troika of forms made of steel, wood and nylon, the project will be illuminated at night and filled with natural light by day. Gargoyles addresses more vantage points than last year's picnic tables/artwork...
Noting that minorities but not athletes are criticized for sitting together, Jackson said people should attack neither them nor anyone else for eating with whom they choose. "I said that we should be able to sit together just like anybody else," she said. "People who want to sit together can sit together...
...three cooks, master and apprentices, sit expressionless at a table perched atop the highest granite boulder, talking with macho casualness of the consecutive days and nights they spend tied to the maze of mantle heaters, two-way retorts, pumps, air-scavenging systems, condensers and plastic piping during a "burn." Says Bernard: "If you set it up right, nobody knows where you are; it's no big thing." Bernard is a virtuoso of camouflage by misdirection, of hiding the obvious in plain sight. Once, this kitchen crew recalls delightedly, they cooked a batch on the shore of Lake Elsinore, a popular...
Once upon a time there were many magazines for children, and they featured such artful writers as Rudyard Kipling and Charles Dickens. But today's children are too distracted by television to sit down and read. Right? Wrong. In the past two years alone, the number of children's publications tracked by the Educational Press Association of America has nearly doubled, from 85 to 160, bringing their total circulation to an impressive 40 million. Says Don Stoll, executive director of the EPAA: "There has been extraordinary activity in children's periodicals...