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...Alan Cohn, a television reporter for New England Cable News, said that it would have been "impossible" for representatives of the media to follow the order...
...father of Matthew Eappen, the 8-month-old victim, is an instructor at Harvard Medical School. The judge who reversed the jury's murder verdict, Hiller B. Zobel '53, is a Harvard graduate, as was one of the main prosecutors in the case. Frank-furter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz played an active role in the post-trial defense. And Woodward defense attorney Harvey A. Silverglate has been involved in litigation against the University on behalf of students...
...have been cruising along under the fuzzy notion that the '90s are different, that an economy with seemingly rock-solid fundamentals could withstand the buffeting of currency crises in countries half a world away. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who likes this kind of excitement about as much as he does a rash, carefully reinforced his long-held belief that the Nirvana-like state of low unemployment and steady growth that correlates with his tenure can be sustained by riding herd on inflation. Said he: "Our economy has enjoyed a lengthy period of good economic growth, linked, not coincidentally...
...Mitchell attended a state dinner for Chinese President Jiang Zemin. Thursday was Mitchell's 51st birthday; the duo had planned to slip away to a hotel in the Virginia countryside, where they got married in April. But both were so exhausted that they decided to stay home. Alan presented Andrea with a gold necklace ("I was amazed he had the time to shop," she says). Meanwhile, Mitchell fixed dinner in their northwest Washington home. After feasting on pasta, salad and chocolate cake, the chairman of the Federal Reserve did the dishes. Unlike the chairman's other activities...
Fischli and Weiss also employ this unassuming and ambiguous approach when questioning the status of the art object, another favorite line of inquiry for '80s artists. Here, they follow in the tradition of Marcel Duchamp, and ally themselves with contemporaries, including Sherrie Levine and Alan McCollum, who address problems of mechanical reproduction and authorship. The ICA show includes several black, rubber and Beracryl castings of mundane objects like a candle or a doggy dish. Although these hand-made "readymades" may be overly indebted to Jasper John's light bulb or flashlight castings of the early 1960s, other pieces...