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Around 1715 a German immigrant artist named Justus Kuhn painted one of the young sons of the Maryland oligarchy, Henry Darnall III: a 10-year-old baroque doll, gazed at by an adoring slave boy in a silver collar. The balustrade behind him and the formal gardens and pavilions behind that are complete fictions. No properties in America looked like this. Kuhn was meeting the illusory desire of Colonial gentry to seem like important extensions of European culture. It would be a recurrent fantasy. Fifty years later, in Boston, one sees John Singleton Copley doing much the same in some...
...Flood's defiance of baseball's reserve clause, which prohibited players from choosing the teams they played for, that brought free-agency to baseball and changed the game forever. Flood, traded to the Philadelphia Phillies after the 1969 season, refused to report, instead applying to Bowie Kuhn to be declared a free agent. He was denied. Claiming that baseball had violated anti-trust laws, Flood filed a lawsuit that reached all the way to the Supreme Court, which finally ruled against him in 1972. The legal battle cost Flood the 1970 season, and ultimately his career...
Sophomore Rose Kuhn came up big in the win over the Quakers, recording 16 kills, 12 digs and three blocks to earn a spot on the league Honor Roll...
...focus of Radcliffe IT endeavors is the academic programs," Kuhn says...
...Kuhn also notes that while Radcliffe as a whole can afford to hire an IT expert like himself, no individual academic program would be able to do so, and that Radcliffe's IT program operates on lower costs per computer than other IT departments at Harvard...