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Because of Detroit's disastrous past decade, the renovation took longer than expected, and the museum struggled: attendance, which is highly dependent on special exhibits, fell sharply. Last year Beal reduced the DIA's budget, from $32 million to $26 million, partly by laying off 20% of the museum's staff. Cultural sites nationwide are struggling to weather the economic crisis, but the challenge facing Detroit's institutions is especially severe; they can no longer rely on support from the region's ailing auto industry. Raising money, Beal says, "has been unbelievably challenging." (See TIME's special report "The Committee...
History Unearthed I'm surprised you fell for a 3,000-year-old propaganda trick by assuming that the "City of David" was founded by King David [Feb. 8]. It was not; he only conquered it, even the Bible tells us so (2 Samuel 5: 6-9; Joshua 15: 63). Strangely, the last paragraph refers to the city's 6,000-year history and even explicitly mentions the Jebusites who were there before David. That's a bit inconsistent with a founding date of 1,000 B.C. Michael Scharl, VIENNA
Having moved in to Pforzheimer House last year, Lena and Lysander say they both quickly fell in love with the House—but only after some initial anxiety on Lena’s part. The two are involved in House life: Lysander visits the Pfoho Grille so frequently that the student employees know his burger order, and Lena participates in intramurals and joins Pfoho seniors for movie nights...
...other Harvard players, juniors J. Reed Endresen and Richard Hill, also competed in the Pool Division—the top division of the CSA Individual Championships. Both eventually fell to runner-up Harrity...
Endresen put up a good fight in the first round, winning the second game of the match 11-3, but eventually fell...