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...people who run the Brooklyn Museum have a new retrospective of work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, and they are doing their best right now to summon the spirit of the '80s. Basquiat, who died in 1988 at age 27, is the graffiti artist who personified certain dimensions of that decade as completely as his onetime girlfriend Madonna. So on a recent Saturday afternoon, a large area on the museum's fifth floor was given over to break dancers busting out moves. In a corner, a DJ fiddled with his turntable while a crowd of kids watched. A couple of guys...
...life-support systems disconnected. The practice remains illegal in France, though a draft "right-to-die" law was passed last November in the National Assembly and will be debated by the Senate later this year. If approved, it will "essentially give permission for doctors to stop treatment," says Dr. Jean Cohen, chairman of France's Association for the Right to Die with Dignity...
...year after the forced departure of president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti may be in danger of becoming a “failed state,” according to a report released on Monday by the Clinical Advocacy Project, a division of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School...
...rising trend of women enrolled in undergraduate institutions speaks to a lot of hard work on behalf of civil rights, women’s groups, and women themselves,” said Jean-Marie Navetta, spokeswoman for the American Association of University Women. “Title IX opened a lot of doors and certain fields are more accepting...
...Jean-Paul Ago Beauty Buff "Because he's worth it" is now the mantra of Jean-Paul Agon, 48, the French cosmetic giant's new CEO-designate. The head of U.S. operations for L'Or?al since 2001, he will take over next year for Lindsay Owen-Jones, who stays on as chairman. A graduate of the Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Agon will need the skill of a makeup artist to keep L'Or?al looking as good as it has under Owen-Jones, who steered the $19 billion company through two decades of annualized double-digit profit gains. On Agon...