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Even if economic opportunities abroad are not identical to those in America, other students say they are drawn to big-fish, small-pond status. “A Harvard grad at home in their own country has a much better opportunity to rise quickly to positions of great importance there...
Rank and Bile Size matters, Brits crowed, when the U.K. overtook France in 1999 to become the world's fourth-biggest economy. But with the British pound down nearly 5% against the euro since January, and the U.K.'s ?1 trillion gross domestic product falling in value against France's...
Certainly that was the case when the two men first met in Paris around 1905. Henri Matisse was then leader of the Fauves--the wild beasts--whose abruptly brushed, feverishly colored canvases had taken the lessons of Van Gogh and Gauguin to the inevitable far reaches. Pablo Picasso, 12 years...
Violence, debauchery, popes, emperors, gods, martyrs, a cardinal's mistress - Titian's work encompassed them all. He had talent to burn and his sensuous paintings were a must-have for the élite of Renaissance Europe. Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) became Venice's official painter in 1516, and was top in...
Bogart sees La Dispute as essentially pessimistic—a portrait of a world in which free will is mostly an illusion, where people are merely animals “hardwired for mating.”