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...University to one of the stars of the football team, Clifton G. Dawson ’07—Harvard cannot seem to get students to fill out their CUE guide evaluations. Considering both the significant monetary savings that have resulted from moving CUE evaluations online and the vast decrease in response that has resulted, we are compelled to support faculty legislation that would make CUE evaluations mandatory for all students. Such a system, which has been successfully enacted at Yale, would withhold grades from students who have not filled out their course evaluations either until they...
...With a fuselage-gray roof that comes to rest on the ground like giant wingtips, the building has the look of a vast origami stealth bomber. Created by architect Tadao Ando, it is home to 21_21 Design Sight, an ambitious design museum of which Miyake is one of three directors. The others are product designer Naoto Fukasawa and graphics guru Taku Satoh. Their mission is to separate design from the mercantile world of branding, and give it its original, purer meaning: the creation of practical and beautiful objects that improve the quality of life...
...million eligible to transfer out of failing schools in 2004-05, only about 1% did so. In many cities there just aren't enough good schools to go around. In the Baltimore school system, for example, says Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, "the vast majority aren't schools where anyone who has a choice would want to send their...
...already resting hugely in the museum's sculpture garden, those works will be the crescendo of the Serra retrospective, organized by curators Kynaston McShine and Lynne Cooke, that opens at MOMA on June 3. But first it was necessary to get them indoors, which required two trailer trucks, a vast sliding wall, a crane, a 40-ft.-wide rolling gantry and a team of welders...
What Price really tests is how to be a capitalist: how to survive in a consumer economy in which life is a constant struggle to defend the contents of your wallet. On Price, as in life, the vast groaning board of the consumer economy is laid out before you--buffet servers! Jet Skis! dinette sets!--and you must choose. What do you want? What do you need? And what is it worth...