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With Frank Sinatra's "The Best is Yet to Come" playing in the background, Gusmorino and Vice-President Sujean S. Lee '03 outlined their policy initiatives for the coming semester...
Which brings us to Sol LeWitt, there in the Whitney. There is no doubt of the probity and generosity of this artist, born in 1928 to Jewish immigrant parents and trained at Syracuse University and at New York's School of Visual Arts, with an additional background of architectural drafting in the offices of I.M. Pei. Every one of the seven essays in the show's thick catalog pays effusive tribute to the sum of LeWitt's virtues, his "openness" and his "honesty," his recoil from the cult of "heroic" personality and his generous encouragement of a score...
...concerned with social status, background, accent, race, religion, gender, disability or anything else of that nature," the website stated. "The most important quality that we are looking for is high academic potential, i.e. an intelligent, enthusiastic and energetic interest in your subject...
...Bono--whose real name is Paul Hewson--was born in Dublin and was ostracized as a child, partially due to his mixed Catholic and Protestant background...
...Because many students do not actually have a very good background in "Indy" films, Jenkins says, this course actually requires a much heavier reading and film-screening load than many students expect...