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...better or worse, we live in a world Andy Warhol made--where striking visuals and fluffy text create and feed desire. In 1978 Warhol said, "I never read; I only look at pictures." He taught the idea crowd that everything out there was tasty bullshit, allowing them to round out their relativism. Eat up, he said. And so giant Brillo boxes colonized art galleries, challenging the exaggerated intellects of art critics. Meaning was out of fashion...
...definitely learned a lot more about myself and other people. I'm a very caring, loyal, giving person. My whole world revolves around my family and my mom has always taught me to be a really kind person....In my 21 years my parents have never had an argument. We don't do that. We all get along. Whatever happens, you don't rock the boat. Whatever you do. I can't change that because that's who I am. When someone's cursing at me and I could curse back, I think, 'That's just not you Leea...
After retiring from B.U. in 1990, Levin taught at the Harvard Extension School and spent a few years teaching under-privileged students in Boston. This experience inspired his most recent book, Teach Me: Kids Will Learn When Oppression Is the Lesson...
...Scouts are taught to be prepared, but last week in London six of them were caught with their pants down. The lapse is easily explained, considering the six were not scouts at all but rather adult strippers bedecked as scouts for an act staged by Sir Elton John. Performing at a benefit for the gay-rights group Stonewall before an audience that included the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair, John sang as the dancers stripped to their skivvies. The crowd seemed entertained, but the head of Britain's Scouting organization was not amused. In a letter to the show...
...weaker dose of a heart medication on the counting tray than I should have. Neither the pharmacist nor I caught my mistake, but the patient saw that the pills were not the color he was used to getting and refused to take the drug. That episode taught me that mistakes can happen, even when safeguards are in place. And whether we like it or not, patients are sometimes the last line of defense against errors...