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Similarly, Rep. Barney Frank '61, (D-Mass.), who attended the College and HLS, said his Harvard education has served him well in politics - at least at the local level...
After almost 30 years in the political game, Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) has found that the value of a Harvard degree lies in the learning, not the name...
What should you own? If rates keep rising, the rotation into cyclical stocks like Alcoa and Caterpillar that began in April but stalled over the summer could regain momentum. "That play has been shaken but not yet disproved," notes John Manley, market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney. In the fixed-income world, short-term securities are best because they are easily held to maturity and rolled into higher-paying investments...
Divining this in Barney's art, you can begin with the word cremaster. The cremaster muscle pulls the testicles up into the body and is an indicator in the fetus of male gender. Everything in the "Cremaster" series swirls dizzily from there: for him, biological destiny is a prison. Escape from it is a heroic act--in fact, a spiritual right. Thus his transmogrified, half-human creatures elsewhere; his fixation on Houdini, the impossibly malleable escape artist; and now his Gilmore, who spent the better part of his adult life in prison, only to be released into the world, where...
...hard to believe, watching a good deal of the freakish imagery in Cremaster 2, that Barney is serious about bees morphing into male bodies oozing sexually with honey; about a seance medium whose face is pierced with rivets. But that is one of the most intriguing things about him: in an age of slick ironists cool beyond belief, Barney is a dead-earnest symbolist plummeting through the rabbit hole of his own nutty logic. You may not get everything that you see. And certainly you may not enjoy it. But it fascinates all the way down...