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Initially given as a gift to Harvard in 1922 by Ernest G. Stillman, class of 1907, the painting will be auctioned at Christie’s auction house as part of a sale titled “Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures.” The painting has a projected sale price of $3 million to $5 million...
...Harvard Law Review’s (HLR) annual Supreme Court Forum yesterday evening. In the case, Roper v. Simmons, the justices decided that the execution of juveniles violates the Eighth Amendment, relying in part on foreign law to justify their decision. Vicki C. Jackson of Georgetown University and Ernest A Young of the University of Texas also participated in the panel. Philip C. Bobbitt, also from the University of Texas, served as the moderator of the forum, which attracted about 250 students, forcing several dozen to stand. The forum is timed to coincide with the first publication...
...real thing. Paella restaurants are to Valencia what sushi bars are to Tokyo or pizza parlors are to Naples. We give you four of the best: LA PEPICA This venerable beachfront restaurant, tel: (34-96) 371 0366, is in its 107th year and remains a Valencian institution. Ernest Hemingway made a lengthy encomium to it in the notes for his novel, A Dangerous Summer. RACO DEL TURIA The traditionalist's choice, Raco del Turia, tel: (34-96) 395 1525, serves paella and other time-honored Valencian dishes without a whit of concession to modern mores or methods. A cozy...
...PEPICA This venerable beachfront restaurant, tel: (34-96) 371 0366, is in its 107th year and remains a Valencian institution. Ernest Hemingway made a lengthy encomium to it in the notes for his novel, A Dangerous Summer...
...shouldn't surprise that Waugh batted better than he writes. His tour diaries have been bestsellers, but Out of My Comfort Zone reads like a compilation of these - a superdiary in which almost everything is deemed worth a mention. Waugh's probably never heard of Ernest Hemingway's theory of omission, which is basically that prose reads better when the obvious is left out. Hemingway would have choked on Waugh's cavalcade of superfluous adjectives, and on sentences like, "Failure can lead you into a dark abyss of gloom and depression." But then Hemingway couldn't play the cut shot...