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...sell--for $68 million--one of the touchstones of 19th century American painting, The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins, who spent nearly all of his turbulent career in Philadelphia. It didn't help that one of the buyers was Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, who wanted it for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which she's bankrolling in Bentonville, Ark. This would be the same Alice Walton who paid the New York Public Library about $35 million two years ago for Asher B. Durand's 19th century landscape Kindred Spirits, a local icon that nobody seemed to remember...
...What do you think of political comedians like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? -Crystal Bruneau, Los Angeles...
When the College Events Board recently announced that Third Eye Blind would be headlining Yardfest, you probably thought, “Well, I guess people would have been psyched about that 10 years ago.” You’d be wrong. The band, whose crystal meth-tinged mega-hit “Semi-Charmed Life” blasted across college dorms in 1997, failed to elicit any major enthusiasm among a group of Harvard College ’98 alums polled by FM. “Who are they, again?” asks Christine Folch...
...Since then, it has gone pretty much downhill. Today Xianyang is one of the most polluted cities in a very polluted country, partly as a result of the air-fouling coal that's burned to generate much of its power. The air in Reykjavk, by contrast, is crystal clear, because nothing is burned there. Iceland's capital gets 100% of its heat and 40% of its electricity from geothermal power. (The rest comes from hydropower.) The same forces that have scattered no fewer than 130 volcanoes across the tiny country bring molten rock relatively close to the surface everywhere...
...think we would be so lucky if we can get another dean like her,” Crystal M. Fleming, president of the GSAS Graduate School Council, said. Fleming, a doctorate candidate in sociology, said Skocpol was both “very accessible” and “very sensitive.” Dean Skocpol’s legacy, Fleming said, will be her efforts to improve teaching and pedagogy...