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...days of oratory from top Administration officials found the theme enunciated even before the speechmaking started. A chart on an easel bore the headline cutting medicare to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. Cabinet secretaries, economic officials and most of all White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta banged away relentlessly; they criticized other proposals, such as a reduction in funding for Head Start, almost parenthetically. Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, recalling the hammering Republicans took earlier for proposing less generous funding of school lunches, described the Medicare issue as "school lunch times...
This peculiar character was shared by other still-life artists in Spain, who turned their tables into arrays of symmetrical dishes and vases that have the liturgical solemnity of altars. Such abstraction persists even in the more materialistic work of Juan van der Hamen y Leon (1596-1631), whose "aristocratic" still lifes are arranged on different levels like an architectural stage, glittering with invitation. Each detail--the sheen of silver, the frosting of sugar and spice (real luxuries then) on a macaroon or a doughnut, the translucency of candied fruit--speaks of privilege...
...Gardner's next season opens on September 24, when the museum's own chamber orchestra will be joined by conductor and Harvard's Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music Emeritus Leon Kirchner for Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks Concerto and Mozart's Piano Concerto in C minor, K. 491. Levinson is scheduled to return as soloist in the Mozart...
...radical, and that is right. Instead of direct hiring preferences for minorities, Harvard could improve its diversity profile by opening its mind to new ways of doing things. Many of the best appointments the University has made recently have been scholars who serve in more than one faculty (Leon Higginbotham is a prime example); several of these scholars are people of color...
...Globe article says the study, which was conducted by a committee headed by Medical School Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus Dr. Leon Eisenberg, indicates that the bulk of these pregnancies are among married women over 20, as opposed to teen-aged, single or welfare dependent women...