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ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, New York (AP) -- At age 77, author Chinua Achebe is living in grace and in exile, housed in a cottage built just for him on the campus of Bard College, lonely for his native Nigeria and the people for whom his stories have been written. Chinua Achebe longs for home in Nigeria, the inspiration for his novel "Things Fall Apart.". (CNN -- Showbiz)
Musical Mosaic at Bard College Feb 18, 2008
The Register Star Online. Serving Columbia and Dutchess counties since 1785. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
A War On Tolerance Feb 11, 2008
Amsterdam: When "tolerance" becomes a term of abuse in a place like the Netherlands, you know that something has gone seriously wrong. The Dutch always took pride in being the most tolerant people on earth. (India Times, India)
Clinton, Obama work to win N.Y. delegates, one by one Feb 3, 2008
"There are some people who think this is Hillary's state," Pat Kelly, a bearded, 19-year-old student at Bard College, told the group. "We need people to know this is a nationwide movement.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
The staggering cost of rising world meat production Jan 28, 2008
To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, Gidon Eshel, a geophysicist at Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and Pamela Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent, it would be as if they all switched from a standard sedan - a Camry, say - to the ultra-efficient Prius. Similarly, a study last year by the National... (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
International Prize for Ian Buruma Jan 23, 2008
After studying Chinese in Leiden and Japanese film in Tokyo, he became cultural editor of The Far Eastern Economic Review and foreign editor of The Spectator; since 2003 he is Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College, New York. He was chairman of the Humanities Centre of the Central European University in Budapest, fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington. (Canada Newswire)
Opinion: Is Brookline ready to rethink Israel-Palestine? Jan 17, 2008
A Bard College professor of social studies, he was the New York Green Party s senatorial candidate in 1998, and lost his bid to be the Greens 2000 presidential candidate to Ralph Nader. He writes frequently in journals that Brookline s liberal and left-of-liberal residents are likely to read. (Brookline TAB, MA)
Burmese musician living incognito Jan 17, 2008
Crapser has also been in talks with Vassar College and Bard College in an attempt to encourage both universities to utilize Naing's particular skill set as a musician, scholar, and instructor. Currently, neither organization has returned phone calls, but Crapser remains optimistic that once the winter break ends, she will be able to successfully contact the appropriate individuals in each respective music department. (Hyde Park Townsman, NY)
Made in Annandale: Joan Tower's political statement goes to the Grammys Jan 5, 2008
"I wanted it to be a political piece," says Tower, 69, who has taught at Bard College for the past several decades. "I couldn't say that then [when the piece was commissioned], but I can say it now." A piece that declared itself overtly political might have been a hard sell, given the circumstances. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Critics pick the best of 2007 Dec 29, 2007
" Essays: Orhan Pamuk. Other Colors, Essays and a Story. Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely (Knopf, $27.95) Pamuk, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature is a visiting writer-in-residence at Bard College. He is a "writer's writer," a real storyteller. He writes eloquently about his small daughter, about his country, best of all about the books he reads: "To read well is not to pass one's eyes and one's mind slowly and carefully over a text. It is to immerse oneself utterly... (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
400-year party's a little short on money, a lot short on time Dec 24, 2007
Tara Sullivan is the wife of Ned Sullivan, executive director of Scenic Hudson in Poughkeepsie, and a former spokesperson for Bard College. "It's not so much that Heather Baker-Sullivan was let go, as a new team came in," offered Bob Bullock. (Albany Times Union)
Bard students take icy dip to combat global warming Dec 20, 2007
On the afternoon of Dec. 8, about 15 students from Bard College took the cold plunge into the water of the Sawkill Creek, located on the Bard campus ... "The plunge was pretty successful at Bard," said the organizer of the event and member of the Environmental Collective at Bard College, Emily Dingman ... Bard College senior Katy Jane Tull says the idea behind the event was to raise awareness of the gravity of global warming. (Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser, NY)
Independent Reader: Of Founders and feathers Dec 15, 2007
For more than a quarter of a century, Conjunctions-the literary magazine published by Bard College-has been bringing together the world's leading contemporary writers, poets, artists and critics to showcase new work on a particular theme. The new book, Conjunctions 49: A Writers' Aviary, edited by Bradford Morrow (Bard College, $15) features writings about birds. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
LAKER CAGERS SEEK TOURNEY TITLE THIS WEEKEND Dec 13, 2007
D Youville (1-7) is coming off an 84-79 loss to Regis College in the consolation game of the Bard College Raptor Classic. The Spartans feature some talented junior college transfers and are led by 6-3 junior forward Charles Walker (21. (Oswego Palladium-Times, NY)
Letters to the Editor Dec 13, 2007
Marist College, Vassar College and the Culinary Institute of America are all located there, as well as Bard College, which Gannon apparently visited. In addition to this, Hyde Park, located not far from Red Hook (a town which is apparently "dying at no one's hands"), boasts an impressive level of tourism. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Red Hook native heads Bard EMS Dec 6, 2007
Planning on majoring in biology and global public health, Cole first became involved with Bard College through Bard's Bridge Program, which enabled her to take the Bard course "History of Science Before Newton" while still a senior at Red Hook High School ... According to Bard college officials, the Bard EMS currently has 14 members, with 12 new students in training. (Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser, NY)
New Orleans evokes vast void in 'Godot' Dec 6, 2007
He went to school at the Art Institute of Chicago and Bard College, starting in photojournalism and branching out into drawing, graphics and video. A glance at his art tells you he's a cultural polymath. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
* ART JOURNAL: Better late than never Nov 29, 2007
Vasif Kortun is the Director of Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center in Istanbul and received the award for Curatorial Excellence from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College in New York last year. He also served as director of the Istanbul Biennial in 1992 and 2005. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Hudson Valley Nov 29, 2007
I was taking the $40 cab from Bard College to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., because I had misread the shuttle schedule, and now the taxi was the only way for me to get home. I had forgotten my wallet in my dorm room before I left. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Many Faces Of Dylan Nov 18, 2007 Participating colleges Nov 5, 2007 Hudson supervisor races Nov 3, 2007 Consonant Choral Collaboration Nov 2, 2007 MUSIC CALENDAR 10/26 Oct 28, 2007 VISUAL ARTS CALENDAR 10/26 Oct 28, 2007 College students busted for drugs: Drug processing equipment found at Bard, police say Oct 26, 2007 Raising men of the highest caliber Oct 25, 2007 Danner: Bush-Aznar on Iraq Oct 21, 2007 Castle: Overcoming Zionism & Free Speech Oct 13, 2007 County asks: What, exactly, do you do? Oct 13, 2007 * Revolts of the righteous -- the role of faith Oct 6, 2007 Report: Wind Farms, Property Values Can Grow Together Oct 2, 2007 Girl seen on sex tape found safe Sep 29, 2007 Religion as a force for good Sep 29, 2007 Myanmar troops kill 9 more protesters Sep 28, 2007 Hall mark decision Sep 28, 2007 Crumpled metal and stolen lives Sep 28, 2007 Getting away with art Sep 26, 2007 Stony Creek highway chief charged Sep 26, 2007 University scholars receive distinguished, named professorships Sep 21, 2007 Finding a lovable loser in Dona Chepa Sep 21, 2007 Local author John Ashbery has work critiqued, praised at recent poetry reading Sep 17, 2007 Despite criticism, University stays in rankings game Sep 17, 2007 IDOL TO BENEFIT BIG BAND SERIES, FEATURE SWING DANCER Sep 15, 2007 Around Spa City TIMES UNION STORIES»Summer turning: Winners leaving Aug 28, 2007 Bill Clinton chats up donors, avoids press Aug 28, 2007 Lewisville briefs for Aug. 25 Aug 25, 2007 Berkshire Taconic announces local grants Aug 25, 2007 Elizabeth Murray; painted abstract, colorful art Aug 17, 2007 Colleges rail against mags rankings Aug 16, 2007 Elizabeth Murray, 66; abstract painter used vivid colors Aug 16, 2007 More of this story Aug 14, 2007 An homage to SummerFest Aug 14, 2007 The Sorcerer foreshadows Gilbert and Sullivan masterpieces Aug 11, 2007 Lush Romanticism triumphs in two Bard operas Aug 4, 2007 Mental-Health Care Reform Advocate Gogo Lidz: You Need To Know Me Aug 4, 2007 Composing in the computer age Jul 29, 2007 'Mr. Marmalade' sees childhood's sweet, sour sides Jul 21, 2007 Weekend with Chihuly to have far-reaching effect Jul 18, 2007 North San Diego County School News Briefs: Host families sought Jul 18, 2007 Smith: Overcoming Zionism Jul 18, 2007 VISUAL ARTS CALENDAR 7/13 Jul 14, 2007 A long way from home Jul 11, 2007 Rachel Carson's birthday bashing Jun 30, 2007 * Embracing the Empire: Trading Nazis for Islam Jun 27, 2007 Full Story » Jun 25, 2007 Study abroad entices madre to Madrid Jun 24, 2007 Vindication for the voice of Africa Jun 17, 2007 Chinua Achebe: The storyteller Jun 16, 2007 African voice wins global Booker prize Jun 14, 2007 Chinua Achebe wins Booker Prize for fiction Jun 14, 2007 The unseen literary world Jun 14, 2007 Nigeria's Achebe honoured for his contributions to fiction Jun 13, 2007 Read Indepth Article Jun 8, 2007 Business of Green: A vegetarian diet reduces the diner's carbon footprint. Jun 7, 2007 Danner: Words in Time of War Jun 3, 2007 Talking truth to Bush Jun 1, 2007 When Porn Stars Get Offended May 30, 2007 Kids experience candid Cameron May 27, 2007 Everest at 18? Top that! May 21, 2007 'I was trying to find my way' May 21, 2007 The Buzz: Classical May 20, 2007 WP: An environmental icon remembered May 19, 2007 Fire leaves residents without home May 10, 2007
A graduate of Brown University with an advanced degree in semiotics from Bard College, Haynes has been pushing against the form of narrative storytelling for his whole career. An early work, "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" (1987), was a biopic of tragic pop star Karen Carpenter, told with Barbie dolls as the actors. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
'cholera' In Need Of Doctoring Nov 16, 2007
Moreover, though Florentino writes poetry that is either romantic or laughable depending on how closely your sensibility resembles that of a Bard College sophomore, he may not be your idea of a steadfast inamorato: To console himself while waiting for her husband to die, he takes 632 lovers over five decades. There's consolation, there's indulgence, and then there's Wilt Chamberlain. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Bard College at Simon's Rock. Barton College. (USA Today)
Musall, the supervisor of lighting and sound in the Bard College theater department, has lived in Hudson for 10 years. He has been endorsed by the Democrats and the Conservatives, but is not registered with any party. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
by Crescendo Choir and Bard College at Simon's Rock ... Using those photographs, John Myers, a faculty member of Bard College at Simon's Rock, and artist Alice Myers painstakingly recreated the 1460 Lubeck mural, assisted by Danish scholar Martin Hagstrom. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
EXPLORING ELGAR AND HIS World, Bard College, Annandale ... Bruckner's Symphony No. 9, Sosnoff Theater of the Fisher Center, Bard College, River Road, Annandale ... Bard Hall, Bard College, River Road, Annandale. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
center for curatorial studies, Bard College, Route 9G, Annandale. Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Works From the Marieluise Hessell Collection, to February 3. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
State Police say they were contacted on Oct. 7 by Bard College Security after members of the security staff discovered two suitcases loaded with drugs and drug paraphernalia ... A search warrant was also executed at 375 Robbins Dorm at Bard College, where additional solvents, precursors as well as marijuana and hash were recovered ... Director of communications for Bard College Mark Primoff said that in the early morning hours of Oct. 7, Bard Security saw the three individuals behaving... (Rhinebeck Gazette Advertiser, NY)
A Bard College graduate he now sells high-end real estate in Manhattan. Comments. (Winchester Star, MA, MA)
" See Jim Rutenberg, The New York Times, September 2, 2007, and Robert Draper, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush (Free Press, 2007), p. 211. Mark Danner, who has written about foreign affairs and politics for two decades, is the author of , Torture and Truth, and The Massacre at El Mozote, among other books. He is Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics, and the Humanities at Bard... (Zmag.org)
In particular, SWU have targeted a new book by Bard College Professor Joel Kovel, Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine (OZ), which it claims is a polemic against Israel and laced with contempt for Judaism. . (Zmag.org)
But on Monday, Mr. Vosburgh told a subcommittee of the County Government Committee that most of the tasks originally assigned to the EMC are now handled by other public agencies like the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) or by non-governmental organizations like Hudsonia, a privately funded group of environmental scientists based at Bard College. Mr. Vosburgh also warned against the environmental council taking on an agenda of its own. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Ian Buruma is professor of human rights at Bard College. This story has been viewed 200 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
The report can be found at: More recently, an April 2006 study from Bard College of a 20-turbine Madison County, New York wind project took care to isolate effects by visiting each home and measuring the distance to the nearest turbine and to what degree the home could see the wind facility. This study also concluded that there was no evidence that the facility affected homes values in a measurable way, even when concentrating on homes that sold near the facility or homes that sold with a... (PR Newswire)
Nye County District Attorney Robert Beckett, right, answers a question from the media as Nye County Sheriff Tony DeMeo, center, and detective David Boruchowitz look on (Jae C. Hong / AP). In this 1999 booking photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, Friday, Sept 28, 2007, Chester Arthur Stiles is shown. (Albany Times Union)
Ian Buruma is the author, most recently, of "Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance." He is a professor at Bard College and a contributing editor to The Times' opinion pages. Op-Ed: As the Burma rebellion shows, it's often the faithful who are inspired to do great things. (Los Angeles Times)
Bard College at Simon's Rock located. Albany Medical Center, Apply Online. (Albany Times Union)
Bard College at Simon's Rock located. All Times Union materials copyright 1996-2007, Capital Newspapers Division of The Hearst Corporation, Albany, N.Y.. (Albany Times Union)
Bard College at Simon's Rock located. Where Great Nurses Come First. (Albany Times Union)
Here is Roberta Smith of The New York Times, extolling a survey of Creed's work at Bard College: "Mr. Creed's penchant for provocation is even clearer in two short videos. In each, a person walks in front of a camera trained on an empty, pristine white-on-white space and either vomits or defecates before walking away." Don't be disgusted: Smith reassuringly notes that "the performers manage to maintain both their dignity and their privacy.". Poor Star Simpson. (Boston Globe)
Bard College at Simon's Rock located. Region Ambulatory Surgery Center is. (Albany Times Union)
She began her career as a faculty member at Bard College in 1978, before returning to teach at her alma mater, Princeton University, where she has taught in the history department for the past 24 years. She received her B.A. in English literature from Princeton University in 1971, and went on to receive both her M.Phil. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
When they blew away Bard College last January, it ended a 207-game basketball losing streak. But at Caltech, they're a lot better at counting Nobel winners who have studied or taught there 31 at last check than victories. (USA Today -- Sports)
But Bard College, where he teaches, celebrated the occasion this weekend, presumably so that its students could participate. To get the rest of the story every day, subscribe to the Register Star. (Hudson Register Star, NY)
Longtime Bard College President Leon Botstein has begun encouraging the "beneficiaries" of the rankings system "to end a corrupt and misleading game," telling U.S. News in a letter that he "would sign on to the protest if schools like Harvard [and] Princeton" joined the boycott. Despite administrators' low opinion of rankings, the University has shown no signs of leaving the high-stakes game that it plays so well. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
She has also taught at the Julliard School, Bard College, Skidmore College and the Joffrey Ballet School. In 1998 and 1999, she placed first at the American Lindy Hop Championships in the junior division. (Oswego Palladium-Times, NY)
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Robertson will talk about projects she has curated including inSITE97, an international public art project in San Diego and Tijuana; Superflex in company, a site-specific project by a Danish artist group at Bard College in New York; installations by Texas artist Jesus Moroles at the Crow Collection of Asian Art in Dallas; and an exhibition by Texas women artists at The Women's Museum. Robertson is an art history graduate of University of North Texas in Denton with a master s degree in curatorial... (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Investments in Youth: $1,000 for students in financial need to participate in a weeklong summer camp at Bard College. Operation Unite: $1,500 for free workshops for youth during the summer and fall of 2007, culminating in a participant performance and guest theater group performance. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
For many years, Ms. Murray taught art at various schools, including the University of Buffalo, Bard College near New York, Yale University, and the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. She exhibited her paintings at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York starting in 1974. (Boston Globe)
The fight against rankings must be led by the beneficiaries, Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College in upstate New York, wrote in a recent letter to U.S. News and to fellow college presidents, saying he would sign on to the protest if schools like Harvard, Princeton and Williams do so first. To end a corrupt and misleading game, the winners, not the losers, have to call it quits. (MSNBC -- Business)
For many years Murray taught art at various schools, including the University of Buffalo, Bard College near New York City, Yale University and California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. She exhibited her paintings at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York City starting in 1974. (Los Angeles Times)
At Bard College, Chase played drums in a band with Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, who went on to form Steely Dan. When time permits, he works on his piano skills. (Newport Daily News, RI)
Evoking emotions is important to me I try to make my music visceral and engaging, said the 68-year-old professor at New York's Bard College. THIS WEEK AT SUMMERFEST. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The Sorcerer is being given a pleasing, pretty, unpretentious, delight-to-the-eye and ear production at Theater Two in the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. The final three performances take place this weekend, August 10, 11 and 12. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
The resulting one-act operas are now paired for the first time in this country and are being given unbelievably breathtaking, world-class productions, directed by Olivier Tambosi, at Bard College as part of the fifth Summerscape season ... The last two performances of the Zemlinsky one-acts, sung in German with English supertitles, take place this weekend in the Sosnoff Theater at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale Tickets: (845) 758-7900. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
About to finish her senior year at Bard College in upstate New York this fall, Gogo first shared her story earlier this year in an article for New York magazine called "My Adventures in Psychopharmacology." The piece led to the book, which has a tentative May release date. It also made her the poster child for the mental-health care reform movement, since her experience exposes the need for more evidence-based medicine, patient/doctor face time, monitoring of side effects and consumer education... (VHI.com -- Music News)
Tower, a professor at Bard College, finds that composition students' access to a bonanza of information on the Internet presents a teaching challenge. "I took an orchestration class when I was in college and it didn't mean anything to me. I took another one later, after I started composing, and all of a sudden the information was in red letters," Tower explains. (Boston Globe)
Opposite him, recent Bard College graduate Rachael Hunt is simply remarkable as Lucy. She conveys all the flouncy perkiness and sulks of an actual 4-year-old girl, without a hint of sentimentalizing or exaggerating the emotions of childhood. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Gordon Steveson, who graduated from Bard College in 2006, created odrog 11 in Ketchum this past winter by placing snow on top of canvas and then acrylic paint on top of the snow. The painting, which measures 97 by 44 inches, is what resulted after the snow melted. (Wood River Journal, ID)
Lauren Shomaker of Oceanside graduated from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. with a bachelor's degree; Florie Jean Wong, an Oceanside resident and Vista High School alumna, graduated from Clark University in Worchester, Mass. with a master's degree in business administration; and Steve Davis of Vista graduated from Graceland University in the Midwest with a master's degree in education. (North County Times)
Neither does the library at Bard College, where he teaches. Nevertheless word of this extraordinary work is spreading. (Zmag.org)
center for curatorial studies, Bard College, Route 9G, Annandale. Feelings, works by Martin Creed, through September 16. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
He teaches at Bard college in New York state, but says he is really here because of the medical care he is getting. He intended to stay for a year, but 15 years later there is still no end in sight for his medical exile. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Mark H. Lytle, a professor of history at Bard College and author of "The Gentle Subversive," a biography of Carson, explains that context is key to understanding why "Silent Spring" had the power it did. In 1959, mild panic had ensued when the U.S. government announced, just days before Thanksgiving, that cranberries were contaminated with a weed-killing chemical. (Salon)
Ian Buruma is a professor of human rights at Bard College. Copyright: Project Syndicate This story has been viewed 189 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
He received a bachelor's degree in physics from Bard College in 1973 and a master's degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Illinois in 1976. He was along-time employee of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, working as an associate scientist and software engineer. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
WHY: When Mary Kate Donovan, a rising senior at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., went to Madrid for a semester abroad program, "I knew I'd get over there at some point," her mother said. OFF DUTY : Mary Kate spent her spring semester at Carlos III University outside of Madrid. (Boston Globe)
Bard College, in the Hudson Valley north of New York, is a classic American campus. It has carefully clipped lawns, sturdy brick buildings and a view across the Hudson River of the forested peaks of the Catskill Mountains. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
He was paralysed from the waist down in a road accident, and has, from 1990, taught at Bard College in upstate New York. From this secure American vantage point, his voice still rings out loudly for reform. (Independent)
Paralysed from the waist down in a car accident in 1990, he is a professor at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson in New York State and has lectured at universities around the world. The first winner of the prize, in 2005, was the Albanian Ismail Kadare. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Achebe is currently professor of languages and literature at Bard College, New York, and has lectured in universities around the world. In 2004, he refused to accept Nigerias second highest honor, the Commander of the Federal Republic, to protest the state of affairs in his native country. (MSNBC)
Nor was Achebe obscure to the galaxy of writers - including Nobel laureates Wole Soyinka, Toni Morrison and Nadine Gordimer - I heard pay birthday tributes to him at Bard College in upstate New York, where he has taught since a car crash in Nigeria 17 years ago left him in a wheelchair. Yet making the case for profiling Achebe in this paper in 2000, I was struck anew by how towering figures in world literature can fall beneath the radar in the west, or slip from memory. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Paralyzed from the waist down in a 1990 car accident, he has lectured at universities around the world and is currently a professor at Bard College in Annandale, N.Y.. He has been an inspiration to many African writers, Adichie said. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Site Inscription at Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery from June 7 to July 21, 2007 is curated by Terri C. Smith with Lauren Benanti, Daniel Byers, graduate students at Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies. The exhibition is a partnership with the Bard College Photography Department directed by Stephen Shore. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Gidon Eshel, a Bard Center fellow at Bard College in upstate New York, said his studies show that the average American diet each year requires the production of greenhouse gases equivalent to an extra ton and a half of carbon dioxide compared with a strictly vegetarian diet. "If you simply cut down from two burgers a week to one, you've already made a substantial difference," Eshel said. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
" He was patient in his answer, smiling sleepily in his young beauty, and I could tell he regarded me as from another world, a man who could never understand the world in which he lived. Three days after our interview, an explosion near Fallujah killed him. Contingency, accidents, the metaphysical ironies that seem to stitch history together like a lopsided quilt -- all these have no place in the imperial vision. A perception of one's self as "history's actor" leaves no place for them. But... (Zmag.org)
By Mark Danner, MARK DANNER, author of "The Secret Way to War," is a professor of journalism and politics at UC Berkeley and at Bard College. The full text of this address is available at Tomdispatch. (Los Angeles Times)
Northern Arizona University, College of Santa Fe, Virginia Commonwealth University, College of William and Mary, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Bard College, Wesleyan, The University of Massachusetts - Amhurst, Hampshire College, Sarah Lawrence College, Case Western Reserve University, Kenyon College, and Earlham College ... Northern Arizona University, College of Santa Fe, Virginia Commonwealth University, College of William and Mary, University of Pennsylvania, Haverford... (Townhall.com)
"After attending Bard College and majoring in art history, she worked in a gallery and then a small museum in New York state and, somehow, found herself in Kure Beach. She began volunteering at the Cameron Art Museum and soon began to create outreach programs for kids."My focus has since become art education," Mastroieni said. "It always was, but it's not like I came down here to build that career. But that's what ended up happening somehow. (The Morning Star)
She hopes to fly home Wednesday and rest for several days before her brother's graduation Saturday from Bard College in New York. Asked about the worst part and the best part of her life-changing Mt. Everest climb, Larson paused to think. (Los Angeles Times)
As an undergraduate at Bard College, a leading institution for the arts located in New York's Hudson River Valley, she concentrated on painting. (She completed her bachelor's degree there in 1999. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. 845-758-7900. Kirov "Ring Cycle " : Russian repertoire is naturally the Kirov Opera's calling card, but under Valery Gergiev's frenetic and impassioned leadership, the company has added Wagner to its offerings. (Boston Globe)
Mark H. Lytle, a professor at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, , said that all of these movements can be traced in some way to Carson and her call to look more closely at humans' destruction of natural systems. Former vice president cites Carson as an inspiration for his call to fight climate change. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Adam Leder, a Web producer for Bard College, lost an apartment full of new furniture he bought when he moved in last January. He can stay in his sister's old bedroom in his parents' nearby home, but she is due home from college in less than two weeks, he said. (Albany Times Union)
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