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...spruce up their residences and look tasteful and patriotic. Through agreements with an array of institutions, artists and collectors, the program encourages ambassadors to become their own art dealers, selecting works that strike their aesthetic fancy. Among the most chosen artists in the diplomatic service: Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, Edward Hopper, Mark Rothko, Jacob Lawrence, Morris Louis, Andrew Wyeth, Robert Rauschenberg, Dale Chihuly and Helen Frankenthaler. Says director Roselyne Swig: "Our ambassadors see the works as an invaluable outreach tool...
Unexpected, yes, but not inexplicable. Sinai, along with Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the investment firm Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (North America), argues that today's economy can speed along briskly without inflation because of fundamental changes that have made companies more efficient than ever. Among them: the demise of the cold war, which has lifted trade barriers and released millions of workers and billions of dollars for productive peacetime purposes; and the ubiquitous use of computers, which enables companies to book new orders or build new cars with the click of a mouse. Says Yardeni: "I'm a big believer...
...worth $6,052. Anyone who held on to those shares, along with all the new Baby Bell shares and their spin-offs, and reinvested all dividends would today own shares in 11 companies and have a package worth $58,396, according to a study by the brokerage Edward D. Jones. That amounts to an average annual gain of 18.4%, vs. 16.3% for the Standard & Poor's 500 in the same period. Few professional money managers have done so well...
...DIED. EDWARD MULHARE, 74, Irish-born actor who made a career playing astringent Englishmen; of lung cancer; in Van Nuys, Calif. Mulhare followed in Rex Harrison's footsteps, playing Professor Henry Higgins on Broadway and the equally irascible Captain Gregg in TV's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir...
...believe that expecting a Harvard education to inculcate a spirit of nonconformity is futile. Resistance is better promoted on an individual level, through exposure to ideas that usually fall outside of the traditional Harvard curriculum. Intellectual independence can be developed by studying authors such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Edward Said or Frantz Fanon, who present a strikingly nontraditional perspective on America. Resistance can also be cultivated by reading personal narratives such as the prison letters of George Jackson or the autobiography of Malcolm X, or by listening to musicians such as the Last Poets, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy...