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Both Lawson and Fineday are American Indian and originally hail from Walker, Minnesota--a small, rural town four hours North of the state's Twin cities...
Nineteenth century Americans reveled in the twin myths of "discovery" and "progress," which had been so vastly strengthened by the physical conquest of North America and the expansion of technology. Americans could make anything, solve any problem, produce a cataract of inventions. This applied everywhere but the visual arts, where taste was generally conservative. In art, people wanted visible links to the past, to established traditions that would redress the ebullient rawness of their culture. Hence the fierce objections they raised against their own more inventive artists, like Thomas Eakins. Eakins advised his students to "peer deeper into the heart...
...change: joblessness is under 5%--a 24-year low--yet inflation is holding steady at around 3%, a combination that economists thought impossible. Productivity is growing smartly, and consumer confidence is near an eight-year high, which may help explain why personal debt is climbing. And the twin banes of the 1990s--job insecurity and income inequality--show small signs of improvement...
...doom the twin monoliths of the Science Center and (soon) the Humanities Center to eying one another balefully across Harvard Yard forever. Students and professors alike must try to promote a new academic desegregation. If, every once in a while, each English major did a few integrals and each CS major wrote a haiku or two, the result would not just be a proliferation of bad haikus and incorrect integrals, but also a more interesting intellectual environment...
...addressed to foreign addresses --the first class of the new millennium (claims by current first-years not with-standing), like its predecessor classes, will include about six percent international students. But for a university which is a center of global excellence, and which counts diversity as one of its twin hallmarks, six percent is not a large enough number...