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...current house system’s legitimacy as a community-builder is hard to swallow. After all, how can a random housing assignment result in the same feeling of connection that we’ve built with our class months before? It would make far more sense to have all sophomores living together in the Quad, reinforcing the class bond that is built on an actual similarity of experience, rather then forcing them into an arbitrary mélange of students...
...jobs. And so the L.T.T.E., which is now listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Europe and India, took up arms, perfecting the modern method of suicide bombing and so successfully indoctrinating its troops-there are now some 12,000-that Tiger soldiers carry vials of arsenic to swallow if they are captured...
With a pair of conspicuous flags—one American, the other Israeli—at the back of the small round stage and masses of plastic chairs arranged in the auditorium, Broza’s concert of Hebrew, Spanish, and English folk music threatened to swallow itself in maudlin tokenism. The Caucus gave Broza an ominously exoticizing introduction: “We want to give you a taste of what Israel is all about.” Fortunately, Broza, a disarmingly charismatic performer, proved that he and his acoustic guitar have universal appeal—although a little knowledge...
...curators, critics and collectors who flock to the Venice preview don't generally come in search of Australian artists; in 2005, only one was included (the late Leigh Bowery) in addition to Swallow, Australia's official rep. But come June 7, the art world will do well not to fall over an Australian. Storr has chosen to show Rosemary Laing's panoramic photos of the Woomera Immigration Reception and Processing Centre, a new Mad Max?inspired motorcycle video by Sydney's Shaun Gladwell and, perhaps most intriguingly, Melbourne conceptualist Christian Capurro's Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette...
...most conspicuous players this year will be Kaldor. Working closely with curator Engberg and the Australia Council for the Arts, he is responsible for rallying the extra support needed to stage the country's most ambitious national showing ever. In 2005, Kaldor raised over half of Ricky Swallow's $A1.4 million exhibition budget through private and corporate donors; this year he's aiming for $A1.2 million, and as Engberg puts it, "It would be a brave person who would say no to John." Come Nov. 21, when artist Callum Morton's resurrected Melbourne house will again be dismantled, something should...