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...Getty bid millions for Matisses and Goyas, one Massachusetts museum has had no trouble acquiring artwork for its permanent collection...
...Summers introduced Kirby as the dean-to-be, saying, “The better people know Bill…the more loudly they tend to sing his praises.” And he bid the East Asia scholar well with a Chinese expression of good will: “I wish you a prosperous wind...
...they assign him a nasty moniker: the Caiman (a ferocious creature related to the alligator), which gives Moretti's movie - and the film inside it - its name. The reptile, of course, is intended to represent none other than Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former Premier, who last month lost his bid for re-election after five years in office. But Moretti's entry at the 59th Cannes Film Festival, which opens this week, isn't a documentary. Instead, it is a fictional rendering that displays the 52-year-old Roman director's power to push at the walls separating film...
...taste of what it was like to play in the NCAA tournament.What has changed since then?Not much, really. The Crimson battled in a tough Ivy League just like they did a decade ago, failing to win the conference and still making it in as an at-large bid. Scott Anderson is still the head coach, and Princeton, Virginia, and Maryland are still near-perennial title-contenders. The records are a little different—Harvard posted a 6-6 mark this year compared to a 12-3 regular season in ’96—but the goal...
...shooting spree. But a note later recovered from his home by police suggests that his racist politics was more deeply rooted. His father had been a founding member of the Vlaams Blok, the anti-immigration, Flemish separatist party renamed Vlaams Belang, or Flemish Interest, in 2004 in a bid to broaden its appeal. His aunt, Frieda Van Themsche, is a VB member of the Belgian parliament. And VB is no fringe party: it got 24% of the Flemish vote in 2004 regional elections, making it the largest party in Flanders, Belgium's biggest and most prosperous region...