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...Arabic): Musical instrument of Southwest Asia and North Africa resembling a mandolin

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spellbound by Freshmen | 2/20/2010 | See Source »

Until this week's PPP poll, Texas political observers expected Medina only to be a factor that would force a runoff between Perry and Hutchison. (To win outright, a candidate must garner more than 50% of the total vote.) According to Murray, Medina afforded voters an instrument to vent with a protest vote; they would then make their choice between Perry and Hutchison in a runoff. But it now appears Medina may be cutting into Hutchison's vote. Some are now speculating about a Perry-Medina runoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Texas GOP Governor's Race: Three's a Crowd | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

...aiming” a camera and “shooting” an image. Enmeshed in the sexual economy of the gaze, vision too exercises a system of control over women’s bodies. Positioning the self against an inassimilable (female) other, the eye serves as an explicit instrument of objectification and mastery. As feminist Luce Irigaray theorizes, the supremacy of looking over all other sensory experiences—hearing, smelling, tasting, touching—has effected an impoverishment of bodily relations. Deflated to the two-dimensional surface—the film, the television screen, the billboard, the magazine...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Bruised Bodies, Silver Screens | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...After the excitement, head to the nearby Osh Bazaar for some retail therapy. There, traders from the conservative south of the country, as well as neighboring Uzbekistan, sell fake Armani T-shirts, cell phones and pirated DVDs, as well as carpets, the occasional komuz (a guitar-like instrument) and rows of kolpak (traditional felt hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Weekend in Bishkek | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...Learning Assessment, and when they issued a press release saying, "We did really, really well," they were yelled at and condemned by a lot of people in higher ed for doing something that was inappropriate. There's this conviction that it's wrong to use any kind of standardized instrument to make any claims about learning. (See a brief history of standardized testing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holding Colleges Accountable: Is Success Measurable? | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

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