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...School and Harvard as a whole. Students can again look forward to Nye's illumination of international conflict; he has indicated that he may resume teaching after becoming accustomed to his new job. Perhaps after a similar period of adjustment Ellwood, who wrote landmark papers on poverty with Mary Jo Bane, will again contribute one of his charismatic guest lectures to Ec 10 or offer a course in the economics department...
...same portion that was jobless when the law was passed. True, many of the 7 million Americans with severe impairments are reluctant to take jobs, knowing they risk losing government subsidies and, more crucially, health benefits. Still, for those who want to work, the obstacles remain formidable. Says Jo Holzer of the Council for Disability Rights: "Many employers hear our name and decide they simply aren't going to talk to our clients...
...images that for one reason or another, usually unconnected with their quality as art, everyone knows, like the Mona Lisa and Grant Wood's American Gothic. The picture that made his reputation was earlier, and better. Painted in 1862, it is a portrait of his Irish lover, Jo Hiffernan, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. Shown in London first and then in Paris, it provoked a buzz of irrelevant interpretation. The expressionless young woman in virginal white, standing on a wolfskin with a lily in her hand (that floral emblem of the Aesthetic Movement), was declared...
...well anyone might: the diagonal, the slanting patch (especially of light) becomes a wonderfully expressive element in Hopper, acting both as a structural brace for the actual painted surface and as a sign of fugitive reality in imagined space. In Morning Sun, 1952, you are acutely aware that Jo, the long-limbed, middle-aged woman staring at nothing in particular from her bed, will move in a moment, that the patch of light will move too, that nothing will be the same again: but there it is, exactly the same...
ARRESTED. JOEY BUTTAFUOCO, 39, celebrity cad; for soliciting sex from an undercover cop; in Los Angeles. Buttafuoco could face six months in jail-plus more time in New York, where he is on probation for the statutory rape of gun-slinging teen Amy Fisher. Said tenaciously patient wife Mary Jo: "My husband is a very friendly...