Word: georgis
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...painting's recent history is an apt parable of Russia's post-Soviet decade. In the early 1990s, seeking to burnish their image, the country's richest bankers turned to collecting art. "We encouraged them," says Georgi Nikich, a Moscow art critic who participated in Inkombank's acquisition of the Black Square. "Naively, we thought the works would be safer in their hands." Nikich recalls how he heard of this Black Square when he was running one of Moscow's first commercial art fairs. "A woman called up from Samara, claiming to have a Malevich. Of course, we all laughed...
...according to Mallinckrodt professor of physics Howard Georgi '67-'68, Harvard's women faculty are given salaries equal to their male counterparts...
...Georgi says he thinks female faculty members at Harvard are disproportionately overworked...
Leverett's Georgi says that although his House's dining hall is known as a popular study spot, he has not heard many students clamoring for data jacks...
...still think it's a good idea," Georgi says...