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...before,” Anderson said. These galleries are projected to open in 2012 when the renovations of the Fogg are finished. According to Stebbins, the Harvard Art Museum had been collecting American art almost since the University’s establishment, when it began its tradition of commissioning local artists to paint portraits of University presidents. The Department of American Art now holds about 3,000 American and Canadian paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from the 17th to 20th centuries, according to the department Web site...
Even though most of the nation’s largest retailers reported a sharp slump in sales for October, local businesses seemed poised to weather the economic storm, buoyed by the reliable university customer base and the Square’s consistently strong foot traffic.“Harvard Square is a little different [from other business environments] in that people, students, academics, business people—they still have to come here because business continues and school continues,” said Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association. “People need...
...distress. Ray Caddell, a broker in Charlottesville, Virginia, says he was recently asked to do an appraisal on a distressed property by a bank. When he looked up the address he found out that the homeowner who was behind on his mortgage was a fellow agent. He says his local association of real estate agents is looking into raising a fund to help brokers in need. "It's tough out there in the real estate world," says Caddell. "We are trying to figure out what we can do to help our fellow agents...
...Some random person handed us a guitar,” Aucoin said.Drawing on a wide variety of instrumentation, including trumpet, piano, guitar, and bass, the band has been playing around Boston since 2006. Half of the six members are still in high school, and the rest go to college locally. Aucoin said Elephantom’s sound has been compared to styles ranging from Radiohead’s to classical music. There’s more than a record deal in store for these four acts. The winners will also advance to another of competition in the spring, according...
...been going well, and many analysts warn that one of its key weaknesses is that it is focused on propping up the Western-friendly government of President Hamid Karzai - a government many analysts see as a liability because of its corruption and ineffectiveness, which have alienated it from the local population in much of Afghanistan. The weakness of the Karzai government may be one of the most important political factors boosting the Taliban's current resurgence...