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...rich biz. Kraus was raised on the Upper East Side, McLaughlin in upstate New York. They have an easy familiarity with the trappings--and traps--of wealth. But the book would not be making nearly the splash it is if the authors' former employers did not include about 30 actual New York City families. The verisimilitude has made for a cool reaction from some quarters and sniffs of a boycott from Park Avenue. Several publishing houses turned the book down, and the authors were told it was because senior executives felt it was "too strident...
...contrast, Thiebaud’s painting, “Diagonal Ridge,” is a whimsical meditation on the visual challenges of representing space. This piece is less wedded to its specific subject matter than to the actual process of painting, particularly the process of translating space onto a resolutely flat surface. Thiebaud engages the painting in a play between spatial illusion and material flatness, where large geometric expanses of color dance with the more delicate details that split the picture plane. The viewer is delighted by the use of a playful assortment of colors and an almost comical...
...invite two speakers, a convicted abortion clinic bomber and someone as far to the Left on the issue as possible.” However, I made it very clear to her, after an interview, that if there were someone coming to the group who felt threatened by an actual clinic bomber, the group would not host such a person. Osborn’s column glides over my concerns in favor of a personal jab, calling my proposal “disrespectful...to the students who come to the study group wanting to learn and discuss in a safe environment...
...skill and character are powerfully cultivated. In my middle school, for example, students who excelled in math were bused to the nearby high school to take more advanced classes. At the same time, classes at the middle school itself accommodated the skills of all other students. This emphasis on actually learning material should be at the heart of a good education. Yet the preeminence of tests today takes away from the actual importance of intellectual discovery. And, moreover, this focus on testing ultimately leads to extreme behavior such as Ms. Chapman?...
Although Harvard has not yet begun any actual land preparation, Huidekoper says she expects that the University will use up the infrastructure fund quickly...