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...Widows of Noirmoutier”) at the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery. Instead, just a table, long and bare, stands on an empty beach. Without human presence, the table looks out of place and useless, as if its only purpose were to disrupt the stretched smoothness of the coast. As the widows trickle in and out of the next four photographs, they circle around the table, leaning on it and then looking away, suggesting perhaps that they do not know how to treat the remains of a domestic life...

Author: By Madeleine M. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Exhibition Explores Widowhood, Home | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...While Harvard has struggled all season to put teams away in the elimination set, the Crimson had no trouble at all taking care of business in the third set last night. Though Harvard hit just .355 and committed seven service errors, its defense continued to disrupt Endicott’s offensive game plan, holding the Gulls to just seven kills and six errors for a team attack...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Ends Homestand with Easy Victory | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...advocates a more gradual approach, keeping much of copyright law intact for video but making radical changes for music, given that the recording industry is suffering much more severely than Hollywood. The key, he says, is to compensate authors and artists while at the same time making room for "disruptive technology to emerge. Some of the developments we have seen have threatened to disrupt existing business models, but that's okay. There would never have been an iTunes store without Napster, and wihtout YouTube we'd never have hulu. So we have to leave room for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet Pirates Face Walking the Plank in Sweden | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

...Stern wrote on behalf of the American Jewish Congress about this incident, “I have appeared at counsel’s table in the U.S. Supreme Court several times wearing a religious head-covering…I am reasonably confident that wearing such symbols does not disrupt the processes of justice...

Author: By Nafees A. Syed | Title: The Fuss About Covering Up | 2/1/2009 | See Source »

...Monday night, a joint FBI/Homeland Security bulletin stated that law enforcement and intelligence officials had received information that people associated with a Somalia-based radical group, al-Shabaab, might try to travel to the U.S. in an effort to disrupt the Inauguration. The information had limited specificity and uncertain credibility, according to Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke. U.S. counter-terror officials have grown concerned in recent months about the threat posed by the militant al-Shabaab group and a cell of U.S.-based Somali sympathizers who have traveled to their homeland to "fight alongside Islamic insurgents," the alert reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Security at the Inauguration: Preparing for Anything | 1/19/2009 | See Source »

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