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...also serves as a ringing endorsement of new Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds. Making a difference in the day-to-day lives of students requires that a dean make conscious and sizeable decisions instead of passing the buck. For taking student concerns seriously and acting upon proposals instead of pushing them from one committee to another, Hammonds should be commended...
...View's hosts (including executive producer Barbara Walters) get away with this because they do what the more fettered media believe they can't: address issues people actually care about--as opposed to those the respectable media care about--and say what they actually think. Once upon a time, journalists' circumspection was a source of authority; increasingly, it just seems like phoniness. And while traditional media are trying to adapt to a bloggier, more opinionated age, they're still largely accustomed to the old standards of equivalency: the notion that if candidate X commits a transgression, "balance" requires that...
...conservative Arianna Huffington takes Bartlet’s advice to heart in “Right is Wrong.” In her disdain for namby-pamby liberalism, Huffington almost dismisses Democrats’ recapture of the House and Senate in ’06 as happenstance, chanced upon because “the positions they campaigned on are in line with mainstream America.” Instead of counting their blessings for what went right, she says, Democrats should focus on what could have gone wrong and brace for the struggle the ’08 race is likely...
Monsieur Jacques had never had to paint in such proportions before. His brush erect above the canvas, he paused, deliberated, then decided to begin with a more manageable area of his subject’s anatomy.His subject was posed gracefully upon a marble pedestal, his skin gleaming bronze beneath the white folds of linen, his laurel-crowned brow lifted heavenward. Between brow and heaven was extended a manly hand, rough and calloused from hard labor, yet surprisingly sensitive. A cut pomegranate balanced heavily upon his long tapered fingers. Each seed gleamed redly from within the open wound of the fruit...
...Department and the Fine Arts Library.According to the renovation’s projected schedule, the museum staff and all of the objects will have completely vacated the building by September of 2009 so that the actual construction can begin. However, this timetable is contingent upon a routine public approval process that the museum has yet to begin. It is estimated that the tearing down of old wings and construction of the new expansion will take three years, ending in 2012. After that, it will take at least another year to move back into the building and to complete commissioning...