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Also present in the show is the work of Efrat Kussell ’02, whose paintings deal with person-to-person confrontation at the most basic level. Kussell’s works depict the heads and faces of her peers on 12- by-18 inch canvases. Her style is realistic, and the faces are made only slightly larger than actual size, allowing for the illusion of a real-life confrontation. “The size was a formal decision and one appropriate to the project. The subjects are life-size and fill the frame,” Kussell said...
Sharp laments the lack of energy awareness at most administrative levels at the University. To meet the basic standards of the Kyoto Protocol—a 1997 international treaty to reduce global warming—she says that the University would need to reduce its already growing CO2 emissions by 35 percent during the next five years...
...basic security deadlock remains: Israel reserves the right to enter Palestinian cities and kill or arrest those it deems a security threat, and under those circumstances the Palestinian Authority refuses to even call for a cease-fire. Moreover, there's considerable skepticism over whether Arafat's battered security structure could actually enforce such a cease-fire even if he chose to call one. But the ongoing Israeli security operations and the potential for a violent split among Palestinians may limit Arafat's willingness to dance to Washington's tune...
...could it be that someone doesn’t follow the basic tenets of respecting other people’s rights and property?” he said...
...addition to the likely improvement in service, the new rates are a welcome change. All students will pay the same amount for basic telephone service, which is more fair than the current plan where students who live with more roommates pay less for phone service because more people split one bill. Students who live in singles could be paying five times as much for their phone service as each of the neighbors in a nearby five-person sweet. Additionally, by including the costs in termbills, the telephone office will be far more likely to collect the payments successfully. Currently, both...