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...understood and its day-to-day interpretations,” Bader said in an interview. “It’s about what art means in a contemporary sense, not in a museological sense, but in a more loose, abstract, and poetic sense.” Amy J. Lien ’09 met Bader at an art show in New York City where the two had a productive conversation that she wanted to bring to Harvard. Lien thought the talk would be a good opportunity for students to be exposed to a contemporary artist from a younger generation...
...Lien ’09 wants to challenge what she calls the commercialized image of textiles, a medium often associated with femininity and domestic life. In order to do so, she has organized an Arts First show featuring student artwork that uses textiles as a point of inspiration. “Latent/Lubricious (Fabrication Methods)” opens tonight in the Adams Art Space. Lien’s interpretation of textiles and fashion was influenced by critic Theodor Adorno’s views on pop culture as a means of producing commodities. Student artists including Anna J. Murphy...
...when a participating servicer changes the terms of a first mortgage, it will also have to reduce the interest rate on the second lien - to either 1% or 2%. The government will pay for half of the loss incurred by the loan owners, from the $50 billion bucket of money it had already pledged to housing-rescue programs. Mortgage servicers will be paid to make the change, and homeowners have their first-mortgage principal reduced as long as they stay current - by up to $250 a year for five years...
Since the Administration's announcement on March 4 of the specifics of its original plan, 11 servicers, which handle some 75% of the mortgages in the U.S., have signed up to participate. The Administration expects those same servicers to sign up for the second-lien add-on as well. It should be up and running in about a month. (Read "Housing Takes Center Stage As Economy Looks for Signs...
...billion in loans from Ottawa, Chrysler also wants the Canada Revenue Agency, that nation's tax collector, to stop hounding the automaker for more than $1 billion in taxes mistakenly paid to the U.S. years ago. The Canadian government only recently uncovered the error, and has since placed a lien against Chrysler's Brampton, Ont. plant and withheld $235.5 million in tax rebates...