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...what did he paint during those final years? One last great painting, of a terminally bored barmaid surrounded by a maze of mirror reflections, A Bar at the Folies Bergere. And flowers: many of them exquisite little watercolors (a briar rose, a snail on a leaf) done with rapid, sketchy delicacy, with notes to their recipients, mainly his women friends, written on the same page. Nothing indicates how he was suffering. His love of life and of style was too strong. In their sweet, private brevity, these tiny notes combining script and image are among the most "Japanese" images...
...Students at smaller colleges are more engaged than their counterparts at larger institutions. Indeed, the only four schools--Beloit, Centre, Sweet Briar and Elon--to score in the top 20% of all five categories of engagement have student populations ranging from 710 to about...
Barbara Perry, professor of government at Virginia's Sweet Briar College and a constitutional law and Supreme Court expert, was among the privileged few to view these historic Supreme Court proceedings firsthand. Here are her thoughts immediately following the conclusion of Friday's oral arguments...
...possible, for example, says Barbara Perry, professor of law at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, that the Court could hear the oral arguments Friday morning, confer Friday afternoon and decide to dismiss the case as "improvidentially granted." This neat bit of 19th-century verbiage simply means the Court has decided, for whatever reason, that it is not interested in ruling on the case. If this happens, the case bounces back to the previous court (the 11th district circuit court in Atlanta). And since those judges have already heard the case (and ruled against Bush), unless there is a new twist...
...Intellectual Renewal weekends are moderated by Barbara Hill, former president of Sweet Briar College and a senior fellow at the American Council on Education in the Center for Leadership Development in Washington...