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...Claudel struggled ever harder to find a style distinct from Rodin's. Working under the spell of Art Nouveau and Japanese prints, she produced some fascinating small exercises like The Wave, in which a near abstract surf of marble/onyx rises above three capering nudes. But the Detroit show is frank in acknowledging the timidity, repetition and sheer mediocrity of some of her late work. Yet even when she was turning out retrograde sculptural commissions for the Countess de Maigret, who served for a time as her patron, she could not help sometimes but to produce them with authority. Perseus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman Under The Influence | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...battle has been gentlemanly so far--Parsons described a meeting between the two in Icahn's office in August as "frank and open" and Icahn called it "cordial"--Icahn is preparing to take off the gloves. He is drafting a letter detailing his concerns that may go out as early as this week. Backing off his initial position that Parsons' efforts have been "commendable," Icahn charged in an interview with TIME that Parsons sold the Warner music division too cheaply two years ago and decided too late to convert AOL to a free portal to get a bigger piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up the Heat | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...incredibly informative. It has the ability to arm students with the information they need to guard against STDs, it can help students guard against unwanted pregnancy, and it is capable of enabling students to make better decisions when it comes to sex and relationships in general. But if a frank discussion of sex is taboo in schools, and instead sex education focuses only on abstinence, teens will instead rely on the dangerous misinformation and half-truths passed along by friends and pop culture...

Author: By Reva P. Minkoff, | Title: And Then the Male... | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

When Robert Atchinson and Philip Gross, former HMC vice presidents of select equity, and Frank Dunau, another former HMC employee, left HMC in 2001 to form Adage Capital Management, the University gave them $1.8 billion...

Author: By Alexander H. Greeley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Will Invest in Meyer's New Fund | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...epiphany led to a yearlong project in which Garcetti photographed workers joining and welding steel beams to assemble the curvy, complex framework of Frank Gehry's architecture. Stepping gingerly around the dangerously suspended girders with a 35-mm Nikon but no tether, Garcetti was literally and emotionally unharnessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Focus | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

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