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...It’s a fairly flexible process, and it’s sort of understood to be so,” said Niko Kolodny, a first-year assistant professor of philosophy. “Given that you’re negotiating with people you’re working with in the future, you’re somewhat restrained—you don’t want to be too mercenary...
Indeed, most of the work shown remains incomprehensible unless understood as a solution to a problem given in the design studio. Yet a basic fault of the exhibition is that the explanations of most of the problems are couched in such artsy jargon that they are indecipherable. For example, pieces of cardboard tubing cut from a big, cylindrical roll and reassembled into different forms could perhaps be justified as a design experiment. But to state the problem as the "re-formation of a rigidly geometrical object into a unified structure, which visually interrelates all active elements," gives the cardboard forms...
...persons comprehend the problems of adolescence. Youth is blamed instead of understood. Many of our problems of discipline and punishment need understanding, sympathy, psychological aid. The swift changes in the industrial order in the last twenty years have meant equally swift changes in the social order, and lives must be adjusted to meet them. Even older people are dazed, and too often young people are thrown completely off their balance...
...armed action now would be understood as an attack against the whole society...
...attack would provoke massive outrage and disgust. "An armed action by ETA now would be understood as an attack against the whole society," says Patxi Zabaleta, a lawyer and former leader of the now banned Batasuna party who has defended many ETA members before Spanish courts. Another reason for ETA to stand down is that Spanish and French police have largely broken the organization in a punishing series of more than 650 arrests since 2000. Earlier this month, French police uncovered an eta bombmaking factory in the French village of Saint Michel, a few kilometers from the Spanish border...