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...last weeks at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington (it runs through Jan. 10) is one of the sleepers of the fall season. It deserves attention from anyone who cares about the history of art made by women in America -- and, in general, of sculpture since the 1960s. Hesse died of brain cancer in 1970 at 34, an age at which most artists' careers are barely under way. Yet no American sculptor in her generation has more to tell us, through her work, about being a woman. To an astonishing degree, she personalized Minimalism, the artistic context to which she belonged...
While Rainwater's research of the 1960s focused on the culture of poverty in the United States, his most recent work has aimed to compare poverty data and social policy initiatives from different nations, said Professor of Education and Social Structure Nathan Glazer. "His own orientation has been that we [in the U.S.] tend to place the level of poverty really too low," he said...
...Catholic clerics have been accused of child molestation, costing the church roughly $400 million in damage payments and other expenses. Now one of the biggest cases is over. The Fall River, Massachusetts, diocese reached an out-of-court settlement with 68 persons who said they were abused in the 1960s by Father James Porter and accused the diocese of ignoring his misdeeds. The accusers, who agreed not to disclose the financial terms, were sober in victory. Cash "is not a medicine. It won't make any one of us healthy," said Peter Calderone. Porter, now married, out of the priesthood...
Clark acknowledged the steady growth of law and lawyers since the 1960s...
Prasad says he believes immigration trends in the U.S. have accounted for the increased number of South Asian applicants. As the children of South Asians who arrived in America in the 1960s come of age, he says, colleges across the country are experiencing a rise in South Asian students applying...