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...current exhibition "Colliding Worlds" dramatically shows, the last Pintupi tribes emerged from the desert as recently as 1984. "They were still coming out of the bush when I was there," he recalls. While that lack of Western contact brought a remarkably fresh quality to their painting, it didn't equip them well for the art market. "You've got all sorts of traditional beliefs and values basically slamming head-on into Western economics," Sweeney observes. In 1993, when Klingender set up the contemporary art department at Sotheby's in Melbourne, he introduced Aboriginal work into their regular auctions...
...avian flu, rebuilding of the Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina - and many tangentially related projects. Well, actually, the first-term Senator has at least 19 concerns. He called $176 million in the bill to refurbish a retirement home in Mississippi for veterans an "arbitrary sum." Another $10 million to equip fishing boats with logbooks to record data on how much they fish they were catching was "corporate welfare." And to Coburn, a $500 million provision to pay a defense contractor for business it lost due to Hurricane Katrina was "unnecessary and excessive corporate welfare...
...curricular life discovered better ways to tackle group dynamic challenges. Tonight, in Currier House, the LIHC is hosting the last of its public speaking seminars held in each of Harvard’s residential neighborhoods over the past four evenings. All these programs have been overwhelmingly well-received, helping equip student-leaders with the skills and networks necessary to excel in their leadership roles on campus and beyond.Often, taking on a leadership role in a Harvard student group means entering the school of hard knocks. Campus organizations suffer a dearth of institutional history, and students find themselves frustratingly trying...
...countries and produced 23 documentaries about AIDS, the filmmaker said yesterday. Dr. Paul E. Farmer, Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Medical School and the founder of the Boston-based Partners in Health, an organization that offers health care to the poor, said that the donation would equip the university with “information on the history of a modern epidemic.” The personal nature of the film interviews makes the archives one of the most important and modern mediums for distributing this information about AIDS, Farmer said. “This is really...
...Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship For New Americans was created in 1997 by American philanthropists Paul and Daisy Soros, themselves immigrants from Hungary, as a way to make a significant contribution to their adopted country. By ensuring opportunities for higher education for immigrants and their children, the program helps equip fellows to be “leaders in their fields,” according to Ilchman.The program aims to “remind people that immigration makes a positive impact,” he said. “People will realize that you can have laws that keep immigrants...