Word: viewings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hurry editing the journal, for which texts should be returned to the printer by March 15th.” For Debord, control of procedure is essential.Debord’s political maneuvering within the organization also becomes clear when his exchanges with various people, addressing the same issue, are viewed side-by-side. While he claims that SI has no need to “fabricate fake disciples,” he is constantly trying to appease and manipulate his colleagues. He often addresses Pinot Gallizio, the elderly, successful painter of the early SI as “Carissimo, Grande...
...site. Medical professionals who have signed up to edit the site have praised Medpedia for its potential to bridge the gap between doctors and patients. Michael N. Strong, a post-doctoral fellow at HMS, said the Web site’s distinguishing feature is the option to view articles in either “plain English” or “clinical” terms. “I originally signed up out of curiosity, and I think the goals they’ve set up are excellent goals,” he said. HMS Assistant Professor of Medicine...
...cancellation of Summers’ class, “The Contents of Globalization: Issues, Actors, and Decisions,” only one International Trade and Finance class is being offered this term, posing a challenge for some ITF concentrators. The Kennedy School administration has presented a more sanguine view on the situation, stressing the benefits professors will reap from experience in Washington. “For us it’s exciting that we have the caliber of faculty that a new administration would turn to and call on,” said Melodie L. Jackson, associate dean for communications...
...releases (“Chrysalis”) to, perhaps strangest of all, mass-marketed Hollywood fare (“Transformers”). But fans point to the distinctive worldview that sci-fi films provide as a unifying thread through the festival.“I like the positive view of the future,” says Jim Peterson, a 10-year attendee of the event. “Science fiction shows us new ideas.” “It’s meant to be escapist,” says Jen Simon of Philadelphia. “It?...
...tension splattered into full view once, in an indirect confrontation between the Defense Ministers of Germany and the U.K. The German, a Gandhian archetype named Franz Josef Jung, gave a ridiculously optimistic report about progress in Afghanistan. The British Defense Minister responded elegantly during the next panel, "We need more of a wartime rather than a peacetime mentality at NATO ... There's too much of an obsession with process and prevarication...