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...time cultivating a down-home image than his opponents. A few weeks ago, he skipped a candidate forum sponsored by aarp in Iowa--a state where 64% of those who attended the Democratic caucuses in 2004 are over 50--to appear at a fund raiser in Atlanta with R&B recording star Usher. Afterward, Des Moines Register columnist David Yepsen wrote: "There wasn't a big winner of Thursday night's debate among the Democratic presidential candidates, but there was a clear loser--Barack Obama." At a rural-issues forum on a farm outside Adel, Iowa, Obama sympathized with...
...Love of God,” which recently sold for three-quarters of the budget of “Transformers.” See? Even the box-office revenues at the great European galleries were on par with the latest Michael Bay flicks. —Staff writer Alexander B. Fabry can be reached at fabry@fas.harvard.edu...
Swiss industrialist Emil Georg Bührle (1890-1956) studied art history and was 30 years old when he began amassing his collection. Since 1960, his family's foundation has put around 200 of the works on public display...
...Among Bührle's personal favorites, says the foundation's curator, Lukas Gloor, was Corot's A Girl Reading, because of "the painter's virtuoso handling of the color red." But anyone visiting this gem of a museum is bound to find a favorite of his or her own. 172 Zollikerstrasse; tel: (41-44) 422 00 86; www.buehrle.ch...
...sloth and debauchery.” Pavloff moonlighted as a chef in Boston during his senior year, but didn’t pursue the culinary arts as a profession. Now an engineer, he has put French debauchery aside and cooks mostly for himself and his family. For Joanne B. Chang ’91, cooking was a hobby that morphed into a profession. After graduating with a degree in applied math and economics, she began working as a consultant for Monitor Company. Now, she is the pastry chef at Flour Bakery and Cafe in Boston. “I loved...