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...English professor Leland de la Durantaye included several factual inaccuracies. First, De la Durantaye contributed articles to The Village Voice but did not hold a formal job with the newspaper, as the article implied. Second, De la Durantaye's family moved to what is today Michigan in the 17th century but did not live there in the 1500s. Third, De la Durantaye was not named after a soldier who guarded a French supply of arms and beaver pelts. Fourth, De la Durantaye did not say that he considered baseball "bourgeois.” Finally, De la Durantaye did not receive...
...them in starkly lit, deeply shadowed space that lent them majesty even as his grubby detailing kept them all too human. He invented tragic realism: his work was the great hinge upon which art turned, not just toward the Baroque, but toward us. The force and immediacy that make 17th century painters so moving - the everyday people in Velázquez and Rembrandt; the strobe-lit dramas in Ribera and Georges de La Tour - flow in part from ideas that Caravaggio placed before them. Only Poussin was untouched by him, which helps to explain why so much of Poussin...
...Night honored the seven soon-to-be-graduates, even though Tuesday’s tussle with Brown will end the regular season at home. The weekend game was chosen ensure easier travel for the players’ families and friends...Saturday’s win, Harvard’s 17th on the season, officially tied Donato with Bill Cleary ’56 as the winningest rookie skipper in Crimson history. Cleary, who would coach Donato when the latter was a student, went 17-8-1 during the 1971-1972 campaign, his first as Harvard coach...
Michele, Ellen, Nathan, Corinne, Marcus and Jennie are friends. All of them live in Chicago. They go out three nights a week, sometimes more. Each of them has had several jobs since college; Ellen is on her 17th, counting internships, since 1996. They don't own homes. They change apartments frequently. None of them are married, none have children. All of them are from 24 to 28 years...
...Millennium task forces will issue a final project, “Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals,” on January 17th, when Columbia Professor of Health Policy and Management Jeffrey D. Sachs presents it to the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York...