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...exhibition's final section, "1990-2010, the Speed of the Future," showcases little more than a handful of high-end cars, a project for an Internet network that will operate like an omniscient global calculator, an advanced radar satellite technology and a simulator for Italy's high-speed train. Seen alongside the wealth of objects from previous decades, this is a deflating measure of Italy's uninspiring present tense. Yet the very success of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, which is rapidly building a reputation for thoughtfully curated exhibitions, is cause for good cheer - as this exhibition shows, Italy may have...
...hour's ride by high-speed train from Berlin, the Phaeno has assembled 70 contemporary works that show the range of emotion and ingenuity of kinetic artists. They have at least one thing in common: "They're all completely obsessive," says Sarah Alexander of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, a museum of automata that brings its showcase of 10 British artists, including Paul Spooner, to the Phaeno. The inspiration for Spooner's witty, handcranked wooden tableaux can be an artistic masterpiece - as in his saucy version of Manet's Olympia - or the odd mental image of a man eating the bathtub...
...commented that the “elimination [of affirmative action] also affected the education and experience of the majority…by limiting the expression of viewpoints in and out of the classroom.” Diversity is vital to the primary goal of a university: not only to train the brightest minds of academia, but also to prepare them to lead in a world where different races play major roles. To accomplish that, universities have the right to use whatever criteria they think fair to assemble a well-rounded and diverse class...
...displayed an impressive ability to talk for hours without a text, but his train of thought was occasionally derailed. At times he would start a sentence with a shout but end in a mumble. Quoting obscure passages from Jonathan Swift and reminiscing about old political battles, Foot seemed like a ghost from the past, "a kind of walking obituary for the Labor Party," as Guardian Columnist Peter Jenkins put it. In the dwindling days of the campaign, journalists began comparing Foot to another doomed figure, King Lear...
...said that it was important to turn the engineering division into its own school because doing so would show the value that the University places on the disciplines and allow it to train "Renaissance engineers" whose technical educations would be complimented with knowledge of the social sciences and an understanding of communications...