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Speaking before a group of about 35 students gathered at a Sever Hall forum, Mpho Lekgoro and Brian Thami Hlongwa offered a blunt representation of the volatile situation in their country as well as insight into the present policies of the African National Congress...
...primitive art, totems, archetypal forms. And its general legacy from '30s Picasso too: Pousette-Dart's Portrait of Pegeen, 1943 (the subject was the deeply neurotic teenage daughter of Peggy Guggenheim, his dealer), is heavily dependent on Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror. There is also a scary Expressionist insight to the chaotic congestion of Pegeen's head, staring at her reflection reduced to one bulging eye and blond Veronica Lake tresses. But Pousette-Dart was a stiff, poor draftsman, with the deficiencies of the self-taught, and this makes the early totemic paintings, with their biomorphic shapes playing hide...
Markowitz, 63, showed that investors fared best when they purchased a wide * range of stocks, bonds and other assets, because the risks in a diversified portfolio tended to offset one another. That insight made Markowitz the intellectual father of the mutual-fund industry. Sharpe, 56, demonstrated that the risks and rewards of holding an asset like stock are linked to its volatility in relation to the rest of the market. For example, highly volatile stocks are the biggest winners in bull markets but suffer the heaviest losses in downturns. Sharpe has cashed in on his insights, running an investment advisory...
David Gammons's spirited production of Robert Coover's Sexgod is not for the narrow-minded or weak-stomached, though these types might benefit most from it. This raw production shatters our society's complacency about love, sex, and sexism, providing radical insight into the deep-seated problems in our patriarchal culture...
...wholesome. If you'd like to congratulate Mr. LaPorte on his insight, he'll be near the B.U. Bridge pumping kegs with his kids...