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Some artists drop through the cracks, and for a long time, it looked as though Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was one of them. His retrospective at London's Royal Academy of Arts, curated by Wendy Baron and Richard Shone (until mid-February, then at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam), is the first deep look at Sickert the British have had in almost 30 years. In America, he is virtually unknown. No museum has ever acknowledged him, and if you dip for his work into the big public collections, let alone the private ones, you will come up empty...
...Beth A. Baron '92-'93, a special concentrator in American Deaf Studies and past chair of the committee, coordinated the workshop as part of her senior thesis project...
...Baron became interested in Deaf Studies after taking an introductory sign language course. The concentration focuses on "looking at the deaf community as a linguistically and culturally oppressed community in the U.S., and not as a disabled group," she said...
...SINCE THE DAYS OF THE RED BARON HAVE THE transatlantic skies seen such a dogfight. The global consolidation of the airline industry is moving into a cross-border phase, led by the desire of American carriers to secure overseas markets and foreign airlines to buy stakes in some of the weaker U.S. operators. These initiatives have triggered a war of words between European and American transportation officials. In reaction to British Airways' bid to acquire a 44% equity stake in financially troubled USAir, a trio of American airlines has closed ranks to oppose the deal, unless they are granted greater...
Amateurism's provenance was much, much later, in Victorian England. A devoted Anglophile, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, stipulated that the modern Games he conjured into existence in 1896 should be amateur, in part because he believed that would guarantee gentlemanly fair play. Bound up as well in the ideal was a desire to maintain the barriers of class. The leisured rich did not want to compete with working-class athletes whose muscles were toned by manual labor...