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Gupta’s men are active and dynamic—putting them in stark contrast to the social system that stifled them. Julien’s film, which is playing on repeat alongside Gupta’s photographs, portrays them in a similar light, infusing subtle AIDS-crisis activism into the story of Hughes and Baldwin...
...thought the Virginia Senate race couldn't possibly get any weirder, you were wrong. A University of Virginia law student and liberal blogger named Mike Stark showed up Tuesday at a Charlottesville event for George Allen, the Republican incumbent in a tight race for reelection, and started shouting questions about whether Allen spit on his first wife, a charge that has appeared on Internet blogs but is totally unproven. Allen campaign officials grabbed the man, knocked him to the ground and dragged him out of the event, leading Stark - who aides to Democratic challenger Jim Webb say has no affiliation...
...Allen "could have ignored my questions," he wrote in the e-mail. "Instead he and his thugs chose violence." Allen's spokesman, Dan Allen (no relation) said Stark pushed him, inciting the incident, and noted that Stark is a liberal blogger who had shouted questions at a previous event for Senator Allen...
...designer Suparerk Bhasaputra is a New York transplant. Born in Bangkok, he spent 25 years in the Big Apple before returning to his birthplace. "When I first got here, the chaos in the way people dressed was giving me a headache," he says. "So I brought the New York stark sensibility over here." A minimalist, Comme des Garçons?style shirt costs up to $75. A bespoke suit will set you back around $430. IT'S HAPPENED TO BE A CLOSET: Although the word bohemian springs immediately to mind, designer Siriwan Tharananithikul dislikes the adjective that's often used...
...students to respect ideas and their free expression…and to assume responsibility for the consequences of personal actions.” Nowhere in that statement is any mention of inculcating students with a culture of service to others. Instead, it reeks of unabashed individualism—a stark contrast to other institutions of higher education, such as the College of William and Mary, which explicitly considers developing “service involvement an educational experience.” Here, freshmen are given Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” to read; from the very...