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While “The Da Vinci Code” depicted a fictional Harvard symbologist, students will be able to take classes next year with an actual da Vinci scholar—Frank M. Fehrenbach, who will join the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on July 1 as a professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture...
Fehrenbach, a seminal scholar in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art with a focus on Leonardo da Vinci, is one of two new additions to the department. Benjamin Buchloh, a specialist in contemporary art at Barnard, will also come to Harvard next year...
Among Fehrenbach’s range of interests are Italian Renaissance and Baroque painting, sculpture, art theory, and the relationship between art, science, and technology—especially in da Vinci’s work...
...believe the newspapers here are still in French. Why don't they understand that American, I mean English, is the only thing to speak? There was a language war, people in case you didn't notice, and we won. Get with the program. Learn to say Bling and Ba-da-bing...
...administration of Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva would prefer his fellow citizens to describe him as a vertically challenged, well-nourished supporter of liberal causes--and not as a short, fat communist. In an 87-page document drawn up by the Special Ministry for Human Rights and distributed to members of Congress, police chiefs, newspaper editors and other opinion leaders, the Lula administration lists 96 terms it wants to hear less of. Many are obvious: Don't call the physically handicapped cripples or the mentally handicapped mongoloids, and when describing Afro-Brazilians, steer clear of the Portuguese...