Word: makeing
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LAST OCTOBER, Congress approved a measure sponsored by Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) that took away the NEA's ability to make its funding decisions on the basis of promise and merit. Now artists--or organizations that sponsor artists--applying for a grant must sign a pledge promising not to produce anything that may be considered "obscene." The Helms wording defines obscenity as that which "appeals to a prurient interest," "depicts or describes in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct" and "taken as a whole, lacks serious artistic and cultural value...
...Harvard should make it clear that it stands on the side of the struggling artist. Just waiting for Congress to change its mind does nothing to help protect those who wish to create and be free of arbitrary regulation...
Finally, a team official who had heard of my plight offered to let me use the team's direct line. The phone was in a pitch-black lockerroom. I could barely make out a piece of masking tape reading "Lynn Calls Only." Somehow, my story went through. Just five minutes over deadline. Just one minute before I was kicked out of the clubhouse...
...What is more important is not the map but the process," says Smith, who does not grade the final products. "The kids take something they're completely terrified of in September and in June draw the world and make it beautiful and enjoy the process. When they arrive here, I tell them they'll end up with 150 countries, and they tell me, 'No way.' As teachers, we face kids who have attention spans of 20 seconds. This takes nine months and goes against everything American society is pushing. This is rote memory, enriched by mnemonics and practice...
...formidable exercise. Despite Saudi efforts to regulate where and how believers travel, some, particularly the elderly, perish each year attempting to complete the long hikes in the desert sun required by the pilgrimage, which is a must for any Muslim who is physically and financially able to make it. In recent years the month-long hajj season has become more unmanageable as the Islamic revival and the increased affordability of air tickets have swelled the annual ranks of pilgrims to 2 million or more. To handle the deluge, the Saudi government is investing $15 billion in infrastructure projects, including...