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...large, gold-colored bust of Ho Chi Minh, communist Vietnam's founding father, with a golden hammer-and-sickle hung on the wall behind him. But in a corner across from Uncle Ho's bust, there is a more discreet homage: a photo-copy of a Vietnamese magazine spread featuring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt taped to the wall next to one of the office's three wooden desks. The article features photos from the couple's November visit to Vietnam, showing them cruising the streets of Ho Chi Minh City on a motorbike. There is a display of other...
...Mike Kelley's stuffed-animal art. That's the point of the other big, smart new show "Global Feminisms" at the Brooklyn Museum. Organized by Maura Reilly and art historian Linda Nochlin, it concentrates on art made since 1990 and demonstrates that the concerns of the '70s have spread around the world. Jenny Saville's big nudes, for instance, with their masses of battered flesh, are descended from the questions women asked then about the abuse of women's bodies. There's even a residue of feminist thinking in Study of a Boy 1, a haunting photograph by the German...
...media watching, attendance at Japanese professional games has sagged. TV ratings for the Yomiuri Giants, by far the country's most popular team, are so low that the games are shown on delay, late at night. Younger Japanese are flocking to soccer, which has a hip local league spread out across the country. Pro baseball is seen as stagnant and uncompetitive, clinging blindly to bygone success, which makes it a fittingly miserable metaphor for much of Japanese society--enslaved to tradition as it struggles to break out of years of economic gloom...
Many tropical nations, especially those in sub-Saharan Africa, are not so lucky. Malaria is caused by a bacterial parasite which is spread by mosquitoes. Each year over 300 million people contract the disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 to 3 million people die from malaria each year, and three-quarters of the fatalities are African children...
...funds early in the year is fiscally irresponsible, and in many ways has been interpreted as being indicative of mismanagement of the UC’s funds by UC leadership. These critics argue that the UC should simply budget at the beginning of the year so as to spread out the grants fund evenly across each week that it makes a grants package. Simple math, these critics say—dividing the UC’s total student group budget by the number of grants packages that the council plans to make—would ensure that the UC would...