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...next to examine a pair of pastels that demonstrated how Degas could utilize the same medium in very different ways. The use of the pastel in “Two Dancers Entering the Stage” was “so free, so energetic,” Wolohojian says, contrasting with its velvety, lusher application in “Chanteuse de Café.”Wolohojian also describes how the background of “Chanteuse de Café” creates, for him, a visual representation of sound. The dark backdrop behind the café singer...
Kidd and Gross, by contrast, repeatedly stress how important it is to them to have an open dialogue with students...
...above. An elegant, Cambridge-educated detail man, he often dressed in three-piece suits, lived on a horse farm in New Jersey and was something of a gourmet. Bennett brought an aura of respectability to a firm that was known for highflying, sometimes sloppy ways, offering a striking contrast with Refco founder Thomas Dittmer, a cattle and oil trader and all-around swashbuckling guy who liked to hand out gold watches when he made a great trade. "They were rough, very street-smart gunslingers at Refco," says Victor Niederhoffer, a hedge-fund manager who had dealings with Bennett...
Five-year survival rate of African-American breast-cancer patients, according to a study in J.A.M.A. White patients, by contrast, have a survival rate of 89%. That discrepancy, doctors say, can be attributed largely to higher rates of other disorders, such as diabetes and hypertension...
...when polls closed, there were few reports of deaths. One incident surfaced of an insurgent raid on a polling station in the Abu Ghraib neighborhood. The attackers killed the supervisor there and made off with five boxes of ballots. Nevertheless, the day was still in marked contrast to the January election, which saw more than 100 attacks, including suicide bombings, killing at least 40 people in the capital...