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...Austrians who came to view the paintings for what they feared would be one last time were sadly disappointed. The museum had to lock them away after Altmann's lawyer received an e-mail threatening to destroy the pictures rather than let such national treasures leave their native land. adieu adele!ran one headline. adieu, golden klimt!read another. No matter what Altmann ultimately decides, Vienna is already mourning the loss of a beloved icon...
...voice sounded more muted than in his last message, in December 2004, so did his rhetoric. He warned of forthcoming attacks on U.S. soil but didn't convey a sense of immediacy. "They are in the planning stages, and you will see them in the heart of your land as soon as the planning is complete," he said. He floated the idea of a cessation of hostilities with America if the U.S. withdraws troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. "We do not mind offering a long-term truce based on just conditions that we will stick to," bin Laden said...
...solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery until April 30 are works ironically recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Danezaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British Columbia, and moved to Vancouver as a teenager, is of mixed Indian-Swiss parentage. His origins inform his best-known work, Prototypes for New Understanding, a series that features Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
...talk. And talk he does. Beyond the assigned Psalms, for instance, Russell embarked on lengthy comparisons to the Talmud and the Hadith. Students are mercifully relegated to the role of interlocutor, and even then, Russell shows no hesitation with swooping down, fatherly, to clarify and make pronouncements outright.In a land of facilitators, Russell is one of those rare educators.The courses’ workload and Russell are not for everyone—although that matters little since 80 percent of applicants were turned away, and upperclassmen have no chance of enrolling at all. One of the larger ironies of Harvard?...
...hours to eat dinner, the administration systematically inhibits our growth from ignorant teens into wizened adults. Worst of all, our absurdly long reading period creates so many enticements that even a Harvard student must succumb to, god forbid, a social life. We have had to endure tea parties, Candy Land tournaments, and a parade of naked people just to pass the time. The administration is testing us, of course. This endless “reading” period is a farcical misnomer, a veritable play-time rather than the hell for which we paid $42,000. It is just another...