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...patron Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan, ended up a shapeless mound, shot to pieces by occupying French archers. His big mural commemorating a Florentine victory, the Battle of Anghiari, became a blistered wreck and was painted over. Little survives of his Last Supper in Milan. And so the melancholy catalog of ruin and loss goes...
...over Europe, Britain and the U.S., it is a prodigious curatorial achievement by Carmen Bambach and George Goldner, curator and chairman, respectively, of the Metropolitan's Department of Drawings and Prints. (Hercules himself could hardly be expected to go through the show on foot lugging its huge, 8-lb. catalog, but never mind: it's a major addition to the mass of Leonardo literature, which, at that weight, it should...
...major information sources that students will be using to preregister. Under the proposal, students are being asked to make decisions on classes that will affect both their undergraduate careers and future lives despite suffering from a substantial lack of information. CUE Guide ratings, short blurbs in the course catalog and course syllabi are not sufficient. And, since advising at Harvard is lackluster compared to other schools, students have even less information about classes than they would at comparable schools with preregistraion systems...
...Ultimately, dakou may become obsolete. The industry is slowly moving toward selling music over the Internet, which neutralizes the risk of making too many CDs by eliminating manufacturing altogether. As one record-company exec says, "In the very, very near future, we'll be digitizing our catalog, and we won't be deleting titles anymore." But as long as discs survive, it's business as usual for China's dakou dealers...
...mail. For more than a month, Dinallo, who runs the investor-protection arm of the office, and a few associates hunkered down, reading the messages at work, over lunch, in bed at home. An empty office became the war room, a place where the staff could read and catalog what turned out to be 94,439 pages of e-mail. "I read a large portion of them," says Dinallo, a bright, energetic lawyer whose off-hour passions are chess and vintage comics. "You're getting these conversations in real time, learning how they talk and think...