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...Crimson also garnered first and second place finishes in the shot put, as sophomore Catherine Griffin had a 44-ft., 1 3/4-in. throw and sophomore Mara Beverwyk added a 35-ft., 7 3/4-in. toss. Griffin also placed first in the 20-lb. weight event with a 48-ft., 4-in. throw...
...indication in the above quotation of intellectual inconsistancy or of Dershowitz's defending Israeli tactics in the territories, or of any "apologetic" attitude towards Israeli human rights violations whatsoever. Unfortunately, recognition of the facts would have meant that Larew's Dershowitz as "rationalizer" argument couldn't hold much weight...
...more than 40 years, the dead weight of domination by the U.S.S.R. and repression by Stalinist regimes crushed political culture in Eastern Europe. Now, with the encouragement of the Kremlin, reformers are lifting the boulder. But in the midst of burgeoning democracy, personal freedom and national independence, some verminous creatures are crawling into the sunlight. The ugliest and most poisonous is anti-Semitism, which has a long and robust history in that part of the world...
...always been a commodity, it loses its inherent value when it is treated only as such. To lock it into a market circus is to lock people out of contemplating it. This inexorable process tends to collapse the nuances of meaning and visual experience under the brute weight of price. It is not a compliment to the work. If there were only one copy of each book in the world, fought over by multimillionaires and investment trusts, what would happen to one's sense of literature -- the tissue of its meanings that sustain a common discourse? What strip mining...
...market it no longer controls, America sells more than it buys, the art world turns into the Art Industry, and liquidity is all. The result is that people are being deprived of access to their cultural heritage, and the richness of visual experience is collapsing under the brute weight of price...