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...fate of man to earn his keep by toil. Perhaps that is why activism comes so effortlessly to Harvard students—they acutely realize the effort of employment and the comparative ease of stroking one’s ego while greedily claiming the moral high ground. The ivory-tower activist only need reach for his keyboard, or, if he feels adventurous that day, grab a placard and march in the square, to soothe his weary conscience worn down by the moral baggage of upper-middle-class luxury. Common sense approved by custom once deemed the best goods...
...Lazarides Gallery, Banksy's primary distributor, says that Banksy's work shows that "his generation are not the apathetic and unfeeling demographic they are made out to be." Others denounce him as a criminal. Abdal Ullah, a councillor in the London borough of Tower Hamlets, where Banksy's recent mural was painted, has said: "Graffiti is a crime. It spoils the environment, makes our neighborhoods feel less safe, and costs thousands of pounds each year to clean." Banksy has, like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring did in New York decades ago, succeeded in elevating street art from a subculture...
That would describe C.F.A.O., which Puryear completed this year. It consists of an old wheelbarrow that carries a timber framework tower that's over 7 ft. (more than 2 m) tall. Embedded face-first in the nest of wood is a replica of the underside of an African tribal mask...
Cathie Black is sitting as close to the top of the world as you can get in midtown Manhattan. In her corner office on the 43rd floor of the shimmering new Hearst Tower, Black, the president of Hearst Magazines, gazes through her floor-to-ceiling windows at Central Park to the north and the Hudson River to the west. Tall, blond, self-confident, Black has a style that's polished to a high gloss...
Emboldened by a propaganda victory when the British left Basra, Shi'ite militants have since turned their sights on the Poles and the patchwork of other international forces stationed in and around Diwaniyah. Camp Echo, the headquarters of Multinational Division Central-South, is a virtual Tower of Babel where more than 200 Americans and most of the 900-strong Polish force work and live alongside 100 Mongolians, 62 Romanians, 46 Armenians, 36 Bosnians, 27 Ukrainians, a Lithuanian, a Latvian and a bunch of Ugandan guards. Together they and their numbers posted in urban outposts endure frequent mortar and rocket attacks...