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...Cagnes, friends, family and servants were his models, dressed and undressed. That's the second of his three sons in the life-size portrait Jean as a Huntsman, striking an aristocratic pose borrowed from Velázquez. At age 16, he looks as if he knows he'll grow up to be one of the greatest of all filmmakers, the director of classics like The Grand Illusion and Rules of the Game. During the run of this show, LACMA has scheduled a Jean Renoir film festival. You can schedule one at home to decide for yourself who was the greater...
While these days he might not be as well-known as Justin Timberlake, another Grammy-winning musician will be gracing Harvard with his presence this month. Wyclef Jean, who earned his fame as part of the hip-hop trio The Fugees, has been chosen as the Cultural Rhythms 2010 Artist of the Year...
...sold-out relief concert featured original dance and musical compositions by Harvard students. Performances included a show by the Drummers of the Pan-African Dance and Music Ensemble, a dance by the Caribbean Club Dance Troupe to the beat of Haitian-born singer Wyclef Jean, and a rendition of Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” from the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College...
...year's bank bailouts. "First we're forced to watch our taxes save irresponsible bankers and immoral financial markets from collapsing under their own greed, and now we'll watch as the same politicians give the Greek government money to pay debts it piled up and lied about," complains Jean-Charles Robert, an information-technology employee from suburban Paris. "It never ends - in fact, it just gets worse...
...However, prosecutors in cases like these still face significant legal hurdles in trying to reclaim public assets suspected of being stolen by political leaders. Last month, a Swiss court ordered $4.6 million in frozen accounts to be returned to former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier after his family appealed a lower court's decision to turn the money over to charities, arguing the statute of limitations on any purported wrong-doing had expired. Moreover, despite a 2005 U.N. convention setting legal requirements for fighting corruption, Valerian says many Western countries have been slow to apply the measures and tend...