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Last spring, meetings began with artists and students to determine the course of the artwork. In earlier Harvard-sponsored public art projects, this discussion was amongst students and one artist, but RA brings a different approach. “A group like RA, who are very involved in the tug and pull of collaborative art-making, promised to be a very different and interesting process for students participating in this project,” comments Silverstein. In a May meeting, the concept started taking shape when questions such as “How do you create the idea...
...games, started two years ago as a friendly rivalry between the Houses, consist of various intramural sports and activities such as tug...
Each side in this legal tug-of-war is fighting for a deeply held principle. Backers of the recent rulings say the courts are ushering in a laudable "post-affirmative action" era--when people will be judged as individuals, not as members of groups. But opponents argue--as did many reparations advocates at the U.N. racism conference in South Africa last week--that the slave trade's effects have not yet been erased, and it is far too soon to consider dismantling programs designed to increase minorities' access to higher education...
...headed up to Connecticut's Stafford Motor Speedway to meet Dennis Anderson, the man who built Grave Digger in 1981 and still drives it whenever his shoulder is attached to his body. He told me he had started out "mudboggin' and tug-o-warrin'" four-wheel drives. I didn't understand most of what Dennis said. After sitting down for a brief conversation, he told me my monster-truck name should be Powder Puff Boy. Then he punched me in the knee...
...watch eight men lower one of the nets - a giant wood-ribbed umbrella, suspended from a 30-m wooden spine by a complex system of ropes and stone counterweights - into the water, hold it there for a minute, then haul it out by pulling the ropes like some ancient tug-of-war with the backwaters. The men win, but the prize is paltry: a few eels and some nondescript fish, no more than 15 kg in all. But the fishermen seem happy enough. They break for a smoke. I ask one of them, Maran, if he knows why the nets...