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...from technical skills education is troubling given that practicing art is integral to thinking about art. A comprehensive education in any field is supposed to give students the tools to explore issues that interest them in their subject of choice. Just about every concentration requires students to master certain basic skills, whether it is through tutorials, survey courses, prerequisites, or something similar, in order to move on to more advanced and often more conceptual material. Painting courses such as Mitchnick’s provide that kind of base for students who want to concentrate in art. In keeping with...
...heart of Schmidt's proposal was using the TV business as a model. A large amount of television content is free and supported by advertising. Other content is part of basic cable, and there is some income in being part of that distribution channel. Finally, pay TV creates a wall that the consumer cannot get over unless he is willing to shell out for premium content like movies. (See pictures of Google Earth...
Most everything from common sense to basic research seems to indicate that for the first three years it really needs to be Mom. After that, flip a coin - as long as they've got a loving parent, I'm happy. But there's something unique about the mother-child bonding: they came out of our bodies...
What's the answer? The hiatus is over. Now we have to return to basic principles and put this back together again. You've got a new U.S. Administration determined to take this forward, and you've got an Israeli government that at least is going to be empowered to make decisions [because of its majority in Knesset]. For all these reasons we're back in with a shout. (See pictures of Tony Blair's friendship with George W. Bush...
...gone through the military or its provincial reconstruction teams. The projects are designed to earn goodwill for foreign forces as much as for local governors, but they also have the unintended consequence of undermining the central government, which never gets a chance to take credit for providing basic services such as roads, electricity and education. "We aren't here to win hearts and minds," says Jeremy Brenner, a U.S. State Department adviser based in Jalalabad. "What we need is to engender hope and faith in the Afghan government...