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...genres, giving juicy roles to a galaxy of female stars. Now women's pictures--or, in the current demographic devolution, girl movies--are so rare that when two or more appear within a month, we can hope it's the start of a trend back to a more gender-equal cinema...
These managers view the recession as a classic opportunity to invest near the bottom--and with less money pouring in, those who do invest get better terms. Venture-capital managers who had been demanding fees equal to 30% of profits--up from the normal 20%--may not be so cocky going forward, notes Steven Galante, president of Asset Alternatives, a Wellesley, Mass., research firm. And for those who put their money in private equity, the corporate books allow the kind of transparency that stock-market investors crave post-Enron. To secure seed money for start-ups and spin-offs, companies...
...misguided journey. Etched into the stone, the maxim of Harvard Law School reads “Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege”—“not under man but under God and law.” The notion that all people are equal before the law is a bedrock of the American judicial system. All defendants have the same degree of accountability for their actions, whether they are rich or poor, whether they are male or female, whether they have spent their lives studying rocks or quarrying for stones. Being an eminent professor...
...principle that all Americans are equal before the law is far more valuable to society than any findings Lasaga might have been able to make if he had been given a shorter sentence. It is rather surprising and distinctly disturbing that a Harvard professor was not able to grasp this basic concept...
...Gogh and Gauguin first met at a gallery in Paris in 1887 and soon after exchanged paintings - two studies of sunflowers by Van Gogh for a scene in Martinique by Gauguin. (Today the ratio is reversed: in financial terms, two Gauguins equal one Van Gogh.) After that first meeting, Van Gogh began to idolize Gauguin, imagining he had found a kindred spirit who could act as his mentor and friend. Even after their Arles collaboration collapsed, leaving Van Gogh maimed emotionally as well as physically, the Dutch artist dreamed of a reunion. But while the two remained in contact, they...