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...crowds fascinating. It has a whiff of '90s cyberhype about it. I'm fascinated by the way in which it contrasts with individual subjectivity. A lot of technologies, such as Flickr, blogging, the iPod, seem to turn the psyche inside out, to extrude the private self into the public sphere. You have people walking down the street listening to iPods, seemingly oblivious to the world, singing. More and more, we're alone in public...
...Assad’s sphere of influence has shrunk to a degree that he relies on very few people to stay in power,” he said. Asking Syria to investigate its own top level security officials is “equivalent to asking a Saudi thief to chop off his own hand...
...André Breton puts on huge spectacles, Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Stella pose together on a sofa, while Tzara, Max Ernst and Jean Arp relax on a Tyrolean holiday. In one photo Sophie Täuber-Arp holds the fanciful Dada Head, 1920, which she constructed; the actual painted sphere is just a few rooms away. Her husband and frequent collaborator, Jean Arp, is seen with a monocle-like disk over his left eye - the Dadaists, fascinated with mechanization and also repelled by it, often used geometric shapes in their art. Another photograph shows Francis Picabia at the wheel...
...said. Cambridge highlighted its youth commitment through programs like The Out of School Time Initiative, which promotes community-based projects for kids, and the Neighborhood Service Project, which brings youth together to address neighborhood problems. Semonoff said that these programs focus on helping youths outside of the academic sphere. “In every community, we are very focused on the academic performance of our city and youth,” she said. “I think that as a community we can all support that by ensuring that their non-academic needs are also being...
Murray credits the slight increase in attendance at the orientation meetings to the healthy economy, and says that the competition among seniors extends beyond the recruiting sphere...