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These are the pictures that open the Chicago show, curated expertly by Stephanie D'Alessandro of the Art Institute and John Elderfield of MOMA. They represent a final prelude to the leap Matisse would make around 1913 into radical distortion and near abstraction. Much of that work he would do in the shadow of World War I. Rejected for service - he was 44 when the war began - he went on working in a Paris studio, while outside his door Europe hammered itself to pieces. Not long after, his hometown in northern France was occupied by German troops, his mother left...
...National League for Democracy opposition party voted March 29 to sit out Burma's upcoming elections, which are the military-controlled state's first since 1990. Despite winning that contest two decades ago, Suu Kyi was never permitted to rule. She was forbidden to run this time around, a decision that has angered protesters in other nations, including the Philippines (above...
...enticed to Motorola with $100 million in performance-contingent bonuses and stock options, making him one of the highest paid U.S. executives that year. "Motorola's [board] had to decide - shut down the business, or find one of the very few people both capable and willing to turn things around," says Avian Securities analyst Matt Thornton. "Someone of Sanjay's caliber had to have incentives to take this...
Most importantly, when looking at homeless men and women around the Square and throughout Cambridge, see them as people too. As students it may seem that we can have no impact on the crushing epidemic of homelessness and poverty, but volunteering matters, changing our attitudes toward those who are less fortunate matters, and acknowledging our duty to give back to the Cambridge community matters. Many, hopefully all, of us want to alleviate suffering in the world during the course of our lifetimes—and in this vein it would be hypocritical not to try and alleviate suffering...
...Fall is when the most happens around this project,” she said. “It’s when people are starting classes rather than going into exams...