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...explains, adding, “The brick sections house the wet labs—very much a continuation of the Harvard aesthetic.”“In a setting like Harvard, especially right next to Cambridge, it also involved a lot of careful planning with various interest groups, how it relates to their neighborhood,” Hartman says. “We had a meeting with the neighbors in a school cafeteria—a community meeting, and an opportunity for me to present them to the kind of work that...
...meets the criticism from the government, often resulting in professional dismissal and bans on public displays of art. Nonetheless, Chinese artists today, due in great part to the art boom in their nation, are presented with incredible prospects. While the prices of art made by Chinese may fall, foreign interest in the Chinese art scene is unlikely to wane. If the work of Xu Bing makes one thing apparent, it is that the creation of Chinese art that sells, but lacks declarations of its Chineseness, is not only a possibility, but for some, already reality...
...what exactly is real. Moya examines Latin American politics and nationalism closely, especially the struggle for power between the Catholic Church and the government’s military. His well-traveled outlook on the world, however, lends his book applicability to address more than the geographically immediate subject of interest. “Senselessness” speaks to the fearful atmosphere of a country under control of a military regime, using genocide as an example of the corruption and disaster such a country could suffer as a result. The novel is as much an attack on myopic jingoism...
...think we should just let the banks fail? You don't think it was under-regulated, free-market capitalism that got us here? In a free market, these weak banks wouldn't be around. Pushing home ownership and low interest rates irrespective of risk is what got us into this problem. Not everybody can afford a house. Maybe it's worth it to loan money to people who can't afford to borrow it so they can live in a house. I don't know. I'm just saying that the consequences of it are that you're going...
...unclear whether New York City's term limits law, which was reaffirmed in a 1996 referendum, will ultimately be overhauled-or whether an amendment is even in the popular mayor's best interest. History hasn't been kind to the city's third-term mayors, of whom there have been four; the most recent, Ed Koch, saw his popularity plummet during a tumultuous final term. A third Bloomberg administration would be forced to confront massive challenges, not the least of which would be steering the city through the fallout from Wall Street's implosion while coping with budget cuts. Even...