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The couch potatoes of the future, whose every entertainment wish will be granted at the touch of a button, may have trouble interacting with one another in the real world. One hypothesis: people will become more self- centered, less attuned to their neighbors and society. Bridging the gap between cultures...
We should smash the current educational curriculum. I see the multiculturalism being peddled now as a fraud. History is being distorted. It is regarded as nothing but a record of pain, oppression, disaster and atrocities. My master plan for world understanding is a new kind of education based on comparative...
Criticism has also centered on the council's inability to produce a successful concert. In addition to last year's De La Soul performance, the council absorbed a deficit of $15,000 from a failed Ziggy Marley concert two years ago. And in 1989, a Suzanne Vega appearance cost the...
Wright managed to enrapture a particular type of rich man -- Great Lakes ! mercantile magnates. Darwin Martin, a mail-order-soap chief executive from Buffalo, commissioned houses and offices and lent him tens of thousands of dollars. Fallingwater was the country house of Pittsburgh department-store owner Edgar Kaufmann, and for...
Those involved in organizing house social lifehave mixed feelings about the plans. Paul M.Secunda '93, a member of the Eliot HouseCommittee, says he approves of increasedinter-house interaction. "When we got to school inthe beginning, [life] was all centered around theFreshman Union. We're missing that in the houses,"says...