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...Holland, a Harvard Law School graduate, was pursuing his vision of the simple life in 1991 by forsaking a shot at a Wall Street firm and instead going to Harlem to operate a restaurant, travel agency and homeless shelter. Harlem enjoyed a rebound, but after taking a position as New York State housing commissioner, Holland ran into some business setbacks that caused him to default on a loan. He sold his businesses, resigned from the housing post and went to work for a Harlem-based law practice. Today Holland is being encouraged to run for Westchester, N.Y., county executive...
...What takes Bailey's book beyond art history is his ability to see Vermeer in the context of life in mid-17th century Holland. To survive, an artist needed wealthy patrons - and the more the better. Vermeer had few benefactors, and he gained no more than a quarter of his income from painting; most came from his mother-in-law and his work as an art dealer. While contemporaries like Rembrandt and Frans Hals specialized in large canvases, lively down-to-earth realism and volume - 40 or 50 paintings a year - Vermeer's pictures are small, frozen-in-time images...
...life - born in 1632, died in 1675 of unknown causes although his wife, Catharina, blamed "decay and decadence" - he was never particularly successful. It was not until 1866, when a radical French critic named Théophile Thoré wrote three articles about him, that the art world beyond Holland took much notice...
...mood has influenced the career choices of college students and recent graduates. Many are spurning high-powered corporate careers to train for teaching, nursing and other community-service jobs. Joe Holland turned down generous offers after graduating from Harvard Law School a few years ago to move to Harlem to help build up the community. Now the owner of a restaurant and a travel agency, Holland has also founded a shelter for the homeless. ''I know that coming to Harlem shut the door to Wall Street,'' says he. ''But I can look at a healthy man, a full-time travel...
...this regard the European Union is anything but unified. Fifteen countries with the potential of imposing 15 different bans on one another's food is the stuff of chaos. In Holland, Belgium and Germany, some officials actually took the side of the livestock against the British and French, criticizing the strategy of killing animals rather than vaccinating them--a difficult matter for a lot of reasons, not the least being that animals have to be re-inoculated every six months. All this is causing a rising fever in the body politic of the European Union--an unanticipated side effect...