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Haney’s paintings read much like a scrapbook offering the viewer numerous glances into the domestic life of suburban America. Haney’s art tends towards abstraction, showing several motifs and scenes within one piece. She reduces household imagery such as fruit, bowls and cooking implements to their basic color and form. Haney combines shapes in a manner that emphasizes their proximity to the other shapes in the painting...
It’s 3 a.m. outside of Massachusetts Hall. Six students are huddled on blankets in a circle around boxes of Pop Tarts and fruit snacks. They speak in hushed tones as a police officer stands by wearily. Inside the building, through a lighted window, other people sometimes wave cheerfully to the students outside. From out here it looks warm and cozy inside the office of the president of Harvard University...
...ruling is virtually unenforceable. Off the Menu When investment banks tell employees to tighten their belts, it doesn't mean taking a vow of poverty. Staff at Credit Suisse First Boston have been asked to keep celebratory dinners below $10,000, while Goldman Sachs has cut back on free fruit, first-class travel and taxis home. Cold Turkey When a country's going through a financial crisis, who knows which sectors will be the worst hit? In Turkey, it's the shoe-making industry, where 300,000 workers - 75% of the sector's workforce - have lost their jobs since...
...principle is the same. The policy change would let donors make unconstrained choices in their giving, targeting small donations to the groups that have the most immediate need. It would also allow campus organizations to become more independent financially, to cultivate their own alumni lists and to bear more fruit from their solicitations...
Gains in Latin American fruit, flowers and other agricultural exports are supposed to help offset losses in other areas, and North America's normally pro-trade farmers are worried. Says Shawn Stevenson, a citrus and pistachio farmer in California's San Joaquin Valley: "It's hard to compete against folks who don't have the regulatory burden we do, or a minimum wage, or high fuel prices." Brazilian producers of frozen, concentrated orange juice are thirstily eyeing the U.S. market, in which they once enjoyed a 45% share. That was before the U.S. industry got Washington to impose whopping...