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...display less than one percent of the collections,” he said. “We hope to create larger exhibition spaces.” Additionally, Manoogian hopes that putting the all the art collections in close proximity to each other will attract more visitors to the lesser-frequented Sackler Museum. “At the moment, the Sackler has one-fifth the visitors compared to the Fogg and the Busch-Reisinger because of the physical separation,” Manoogian said. Manoogian also believes that connecting the museums will give rise to many creative opportunities...

Author: By Betsy L. Mead, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plans Revealed for Museums | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...insurgent operative at work in Iraq now is likely to have multiple years of guerrilla experience, in addition to the formal military training many of today's outlaws got in Iraq's old army of Saddam Hussein. The odds are many of the lesser fighters of the insurgent movement wound up jailed or killed in the past year or so during the surge, when decisive battles did indeed unfold in places like Ramadi and Baqubah. So the remaining bunch in Mosul stands to be perhaps the best fighters on the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maliki's Mosul Offensive | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

...fight. But the film never cohered, and at the end it trailed off into a preview of the two sequels that now don't look as if they'll be made. The first Narnia movie was middling-bad, its four lead child actors displaying little charm, their world holding lesser wonder. But, hey, it was a hit because the Lewis books had been popular with the parents and grandparents who took their young charges to see it and because the range of ages of the four young heroes gave kids from 6 to 16 someone to identify with. Disney marketed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Narnia Hits While Golden Compass Flops | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...sing the body electric," Walt Whitman wrote more than 150 years ago, around the time the nation started to be united, from Atlantic to Pacific, by the railroad and the telegraph. By the end of the 19th century, one of Thomas Edison's lesser inventions--the movies--had given the world the first machine art. In a way, every film ever since has been a testament to the technical ingenuity of America (or of a few geniuses who happened to live there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iron Man, Speed Racer and the Future | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...someone placed a memo in her mailbox that listed her base salary-about $44,000 a year-and that of three male colleagues of equal if not lesser tenure and title. They earned from $53,000 to $62,000. "I was floored," says Ledbetter, 70. "I just didn't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming Clean on Worker Salaries | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

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