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Sussman said that he hopes that the site, which will be up and running within a few months, will bolster coverage of public life, especially in the political sphere...
...dissension breaking up the Bauhaus, the influential German Arts and Crafts school, where he had been a professor and artist-in-residence. The Basel show opens with a prologue from those brighter days, including the miraculous gem Ad Marginem, reminiscent of a medieval miniature, with a fiery red sphere aglow on a pale green ground, surrounded by feathery plants and fairy-tale creatures that seem to grow out from all four sides of the frame. Steamboat and Sailboats, Toward Evening and the abstract Polyphony are exercises in Klee's dreamlike version of pointillism, with light and shadow played...
Earle, who had been D.A. for less than 18 months, was pretty green. When it came time to decide whether to seek death, he consulted Robert Kane, a UT philosophy professor. Kane has written extensively about how to encourage what he calls the moral sphere--"an ideal sphere in which everybody's rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are being respected," as Kane describes it. Sitting in Earle's home in the summer of 1978, he told the D.A. that sometimes, society must use the death penalty to send a message that it will protect people...
...that Harvard has created here, many students have not fully embraced the carefully-constructed opportunity to gain real understanding from those different from themselves through friendships and close interaction. It can be seen in the dining halls, in blocking groups and, notably, in extracurricular groups—the largest sphere of group interaction at Harvard. While it is certainly not the rule, race is often a powerful factor in determining the friendships, social interactions and extracurricular pursuits of students here...
...that students’ attention, energy, or at least time is a finite resource, and that the way to focus more of it on academics, and thereby improve undergraduate education, is to limit the amount that can be spent extracurricularly; the excess will inevitably wind up in the academic sphere...