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Last year, the council offered funds to about 120 groups, and Clay said he hopes that number will be reached again this year...
Several members of the council, including Finance Committee Chair Clay M. West '97, have suggested that the deadline be extended in an effort to increase applications and fund allocations...
...federal politicians are pushing hardest to extend family caps everywhere. Missouri Representative Jim Talent is honest enough to say, "We may have to revisit the scholarly underpinnings of our argument, but on the other hand, everyone has a study, right?" Florida Representative Clay Shaw, who pushed the family cap through the House, simply ignores the Rutgers findings: "We have found through our studies that there are kids out there who are having children because of the cash they're going to receive...
...crabby-looking servant girl grinding aioli in Diego Velazquez's Kitchen Scene with Christ in the House of Martha and Mary was to the sumptuous nudes of Titian or Veronese. A modern palate would recoil at the eggs slowly frying, or rather poaching, in oil on top of a clay stove in Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. But what an amazing act of skill the picture itself is, done in 1618 by a 19-year-old boy who wanted to display his total control over surface texture, form and light, from the transparency of the oil in which...
...climax of the show comes at the right place, its end, with four still lifes by Francisco de Goya. Because Goya was supremely a painter of the human clay in all its aspects, we don't associate him with still life. But his powers of empathy were so vast that he could endow almost anything with a shiver of mortality and the cold touch of otherness; and so it is with these paintings...