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Perhaps the clearest lesson I drew from my visit to the show, Dependent Objects, at Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum is that one of the more humorous, if often unintentional, side effects of conceptual art has been to make the museum-going experience unprecedentedly uncomfortable. As I walked into the gallery the first thing I saw was “Wave,” a 1964 sculpture by the artist Hans Haacke. The piece consisted of a thin rectangular slab, almost five feet long and a little less than a foot high, which was suspended from the ceiling...
...PARENTS TODAY? They're intimidated. Life is moving so fast and there's so much competition for influencing their children that they're a little taken aback by it. Parents aren't the only influence in their kids' lives, so they need to be the best, the loudest, the clearest and the closest...
...properly as long as they stay within the law." Others see a campaign to strip Khodorkovsky of political influence, roll back the power and wealth of the Russian oligarchs, and perhaps even renationalize Russia's oil industry. The clearest indication of motive may have come last month, when Putin's aide-de-camp and deputy chief of staff, Igor Sechin, was named chairman of the board of directors of the state-owned oil company, Rosneft. Sechin, 43, has no known experience in the oil business. Rosneft would not comment on the appointment. But the company is poised to snap...
Lifting off in his Russian MI-17 transporter helicopter from Patna in northeast India and banking low and east along the Ganges River delta, Captain S.K. Singh gets the clearest possible view of South Asia's water crisis. In front of him is a split-screen of disaster. On the left are catastrophic floods, the worst in a century according to relief workers, which have killed 1,500 people, disrupted the lives of 63 million and released a disease epidemic. A full two-thirds of Bangladesh is now under water, while 1.2 million homes have been washed away region-wide...
...student, William Munford, turned out to be a scoundrel who would spread political gossip about Jefferson. But historians consider this letter from the then Vice President to Munford to be essential Jefferson: a statement of his fundamental optimism, his faith in the possibility of progress through learning, and the clearest expression of his views on the role of learned young men in the Republic. Also in his note, Jefferson took time to remind Munford to study his trigonometry...