The latest edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education has a story (not online for non-subscibers) about troubles at the American University of Afghanistan, a high-profile Bush Administration project in Kabul.Development there has been slow, and the blame goes mostly on the school's president, who recently resigned, the paper said.[Faculty] describe him as an absent administrator, detached from the realities on
the ground and uninterested in soliciting advice from the staff.And
although one of
Art by Jesse LottThe must-see shows Jesse Lott: "The Urban Frontier" and Javier de Villota: "DeHumanization Echo" close this Sunday at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art. Lott and de Villota, both based in Houston, share not so much a style as a purpose -- to express a belief in humanism.Lott's "Urban Frontier," all graceful wires and found wood shaped into animals, women and Christ figures, is a jarring juxtaposition to de Villota's "DeHumanization Echo," chaotic, graphic depictions of viol
