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...heart of constant disputes over "deaccessioning"--what museums and other institutions do when they liquidate part of their collections. Though as a practice deaccessioning is nothing new, the outlandishly overheated art market of recent years has made it newly irresistible. At a time when a Jackson Pollock or a Gustav Klimt can go for about $140 million, it's no surprise that one institution after another has begun to see its "permanent collection" as just so much movable merchandise. But art is no ordinary inventory. Briskly disposing of it doesn't always sit well with people who like to visit...
...consultants, some young artists of Harvard theater have decided to step out of the mold and onto paths less traveled. The College lacks a performing arts department, yet it is unique in that it boasts a lively hands-on theater completely culture dependent on extracurricular involvement. Lauren L. Jackson ’07, a sociology and women, gender, and sexuality studies concentrator who acts, dances, and sings, plans to move to New York City after graduation in order to pursue her passions. A professional dancer in Los Angeles since early childhood and through her teenage years, Jackson had the opportunity...
...much an aesthetic call as a moral one. It's arbitrary, nebulous and, yes, unfair. Who doesn't have a list of artists or leaders whose sins they rationalize: Elvis Costello for calling Ray Charles a "blind, ignorant nigger," Eminem for peppering his lyrics with "faggot," Jesse Jackson for "Hymietown," D.W. Griffith for lionizing the Klan or T.S. Eliot for maligning Jews...
...from the victimized churches pleading for mercy and forgiveness. One preacher, the Rev. Walter Hawkins, spoke in court with, he said, a "spirit of forgiveness. We love them and want them to come and visit us as soon as they finish their sentences." But Bibb County District Attorney Michael Jackson believed that full weight of justice still has to be imposed. The federal government may have exacted its due but Alabama had to get its hands on the trio to serve time under state law. That could mean an additional 15 years each. "I am not bending on that," said...
...years for each arson, 10 years for each burglary and six months for animal cruelty for shooting a cow. They will serve a mandatory two years after their federal sentences are over and no other time "as long as they behave themselves," said Alabama state prosecutor Michael Jackson. Said Jackson: "I feel like justice was served. They?ll be in there long enough to know it was a serious crime...