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...unnamed oil-on-canvass portrait signed “Copley RA” and dated 1790 was sold for $85,000 at an auction Saturday by Stair Galleries in Hudson, N.Y.—far above the auction house’s initial price estimate of $1,500 to $2,500. The painting is identical to Copley’s portrait of William Ponsonby, the second earl of Bessborough, according to an art professional who asked that his name not be printed to preserve his relationship with the auction house...
...they were a great deal of help in identifying candidates, and I think they understood that,” Bok said of the student advisory committees. “Their main value, coming very late in the process, was that they had taken the time to canvass the student body and think very hard about what a new dean had to be concerned about.”The outgoing Graduate Student Council president, Benjamin G. Lee, said his committee told Bok of issues concerning graduate students, including the availability of housing and of benefits to students with children.The Undergraduate Council...
...can’t say they were a great deal of help in identifying candidates,” Bok said of the student advisory committees. “Their main value, coming very late in the process, was that they had taken the time to canvass the student body and think very hard about what a new dean had to be concerned about...
Still, New Orleanians learned a valuable lesson from Katrina: Trust no one and nothing. They're not counting on the levees to hold or the government to rescue them this time. Neighborhoods like Broadmoor are recruiting block captains to canvass residents who have returned, noting which homes are occupied, who lives in flimsy trailers and which elderly residents might need help. In Gentilly, where many senior citizens died, residents are looking into their own text-messaging system for emergency alerts. Self-sufficiency is everyone's mantra, from civic associations to city hall. "We have purchased jet boats and sandbags," says...
During the fall of our senior year, as our sights were supposed to turn outward to the “real world,” those of us who hated the regime traveled to New Hampshire and elsewhere to canvass and register voters in the hopes that we, the youth, could lead our country back on the right track...