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...Century Masters," which opens to the public on Oct. 31 and runs through April 2008, gives the museum a good opportunity to reveal another of its closely kept secrets: it holds important paintings created after 1828, the year of Goya's death, which has until now marked the chronological endpoint of its permanent collection. This exhibition of over 100 works opens with portraits from Goya's age - including one by him of a voluptuous Marquesa de Santa Cruz, and another of him, by contemporary Vicente López, depicting the artist in dyspeptic old age. Francisco Pradilla's tempestuous...
Everyone and their Hist and Lit tutor has a theory of when childhood ends—or really, when theirs ended. Puberty? Columbine? 9/11? But whatever the endpoint, hardly anyone disputes the premise: There is childhood, and then it’s over. The ending is generally seen as a premature and inauspicious development.The tragedy of childhood’s end is at the crux of “Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations,” the debut collection of comedic shorts by Simon Rich ’06–’07. From the second...
...attention from more serious structural failures in our education system. The final purpose of higher education is to provide an environment in which young adults explore and build according to their own plans. Though this process may be error-laden and oftentimes without a clear marketable value at its endpoint, it is a process which is crucial to personal development. The responsibility for ensuring that colleges perform as they should lies on the individual student. No administration from above can function well as a surrogate for this...
...does business. But last week's results signal that the days of exceeding growth predictions are probably over. Dell may be forced to grind it out like everyone else. "When you're that big, how do you keep growing like that?" asks Roger Kay, president of research firm Endpoint Technologies. "Dell has to reset Wall Street's expectations, but the computer industry is still seen as young. It's hard for a tech company to face Wall Street and say, 'Look, guys, this is who we are.'" It may be even harder when you've been No. 1 forever...
...brothers would spend hours on end perusing the shelves of the local public library. Elena’s parents were strong believers in education, but they believed a secondary school degree was a pragmatic endpoint for their children...