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...surprising that this happens in economics, with its student-faculty ratio of about 20 to 1, nor in government, which has a ratio of 14 to 1. But 15 percent of undergrads concentrate in economics, and another 10 percent concentrate in government. While he was dean, Lewis conducted a biennial survey of seniors about their advising experiences. He found that economics and government consistently scored lowest in quality of advising: for instance, while 56 percent of all seniors reported that their academic interests were covered in advising conversations, only 28 percent of economics concentrators and 37 percent of government concentrators...
...auction ($2,869,500 in 2002 for his 1966 Portrait of Nick Wilder). His devotion to representational art has sometimes made him seem out of step, sometimes in. Two years ago, he was one of just a handful of artists of his generation to be included in the Whitney Biennial, the New York City museum survey that tries, however bumptiously, to define what's happening. The curators credited him with "serving as a model for painting's renewed focus on the intimate and the figurative." And with the Boston show, which will travel to Los Angeles and London, Hockney...
...Liberals' next biennial convention isn't due until spring 2007, but insiders are already lobbying for a leadership confab as early as this fall. That would give would-be candidates less than six months to recruit delegates and build a campaign team--one reason that pressure is already building for hopefuls to declare themselves. Former Justice Minister Martin Cauchon was among the first to sniff the winds: he called a prospective supporter (unsuccessfully) three times for lunch. Others, like former Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin, powerful Toronto-area M.P.s Maurizio Bevilacqua and Joe Volpe and former hockey great Ken Dryden...
...conference last week for 20 incoming mayors from large cities nationwide, featuring three days of workshops and seminars to help participants maximize their impact as city leaders. The Seminar on Transition and Leadership for Newly-Elected Mayors ran last Wednesday through Friday at the Kennedy School of Government. The biennial, non-partisan program, first held in 1972, is co-sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. “The goal of the conference is to help mayors think about current issues,” said IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen, a former governor of New Hampshire...
Many of the nine incumbents and nine challengers, along with their supporters, gathered at the Cambridge Senior Center last night to watch “The Count,” the biennial city tradition in which votes are tallied...