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...Average student-loan debt for the 62% of U.S. undergraduates who borrow to pay for college...
...office but still equipped with T.R.'s literate machismo? And who could look at John F. Kennedy, scrimmaging with his clan at Hyannis Port, and not be reminded of another young President, tussling with his kids at Sagamore Hill? Is it any surprise when more recent Presidents try to borrow a bit of his halo? Bill Clinton had Teddy's bust on his desk. George W. Bush let it be known that he spent last Christmas vacation reading a Roosevelt biography, his second since he got to the White House...
...Foreign films. Remember them? Graybeards dissolve in a puddle of fond memories as they recall the days, a few decades back, when movies in French, Swedish, Japanese, Italian and a half-dozen other languages set the medium?s standard for excellence. To be cinematically literate - "cinemate," to borrow a term Time proposed in a 1963 cover story heralding the first New York Film Festival - one had to be able to discuss the hidden narrative meanings and formal innovations of pictures like The Seventh Seal and Last Year at Marienbad. Foreign films had snob appeal and sex appeal. Or they...
...good artists borrow but great artists steal, as the saying goes, then Japanese artist Yoshihiko Wada could be considered one of the best. A painter whose dark, moody canvases could sell for upwards of $15,000, Wada won Japan's prestigious Minister of Education Art Encouragement Prize in March. But a few weeks later, an anonymous tipster alerted government officials that several of his paintings were virtual replicas of works by an Italian artist, Alberto Sughi. When confronted by the media, the 66-year-old Wada claimed his works were an "homage" to Sughi, not theft. Sughi, however...
...After comparing Wada and Sughi's works, Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency decided to strip Wada of his award last week. So far, Wada has been less than repentant. "My style has been to borrow other artists' compositions and add some of my own ideas to them," he told the Yomiuri Shimbun the day before his award was retracted. "Only artists who have studied abroad can understand the subtle difference in nuance...