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...There has been a kind of pace-settingatmosphere to all this," says Peeps, who helpedmanage Stanford's recent five-year, $1.2 billioncapital campaign. "It raises the sights foreverybody. That's different, I think, thancompeting with each other. It has the effect ofsetting a new benchmark...
...There has been a kind of pace-settingatmosphere to all this," says Peeps, who helpedmanage Stanford's recent five-year, $1.2 billioncapital campaign. "It raises the sights foreverybody. That's different, I think, thancompeting with each other. It has the effect ofsetting a new benchmark...
...unlikely that this show will force a sudden rewriting of American art history. No judgment by aesthetic, rather than racial, criteria can make him into a lost "great American painter," though certainly he was a good one. The show, and in particular Powell's detailed catalog -- a benchmark in the study of black American art -- do open a door for Johnson's entry into that history, even though Powell's claim that Johnson was a kind of black Marsden ; Hartley, discovering full identification with his people through folk culture, passing from a "narrow and skewed" Eurocentric primitivism to a fully...
With domestic inflation running at more than 4% annually, Germany's Bundesbank sought to dampen it by raising the benchmark discount rate for lending to banks a hefty .75%, to 8.75%, the highest level since 1931. But to spur world economic recovery, the board at the same time left unchanged, at 9.75%, the so-called Lombard rate, which governs charges for overnight loans among banks in Germany and has a wider international impact than the discount rate...
Kevin Young is a poet, and he is familiar with the power of metaphor. He has spent some time thinking about its possibilities and its dangers, but he laughs when I tell him that he has become a kind a of literary benchmark for the Harvard community...