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...record-breaking sale of a Rembranbt for $2.3 million caused a stir in 1961, but adjusted for inflation, that's only $15.6 million today. Only? Makeup mogul Ronald Lauder last week paid $135 mil for this glittering Klimt, setting a new all-time high for a painting. Here's a gallery of other works that have held the title...
...committee's makeup could lead to some substantial changes in the general education recommendations before they are brought before the Faculty for a vote. The emphasis of the current report is student flexibility and choice, but many faculty members have argued that students need more guidance in choosing what kinds of courses to take. Some have expressed strong concern about the lack of a moral reasoning or quantitative reasoning requirement in the 2005 report; both moral reasoning and quantitative reasoning are currently required of all Harvard undergraduates...
Would a high-fat diet be particularly damaging to your health, given your genetic makeup? About 15% of folks are born with a form of a liver enzyme that causes their HDL, or good cholesterol, level to go down in response to dietary fat. In most people the HDL level goes up, counterbalancing some of the bad effects of dietary fat on LDL--the dangerous cholesterol...
Perhaps a woman with cheekbones like ice cliffs gets called plain because of her willingness--almost insistence--on transforming for each role. (On receiving one of her countless awards, Streep thanked longtime makeup artist Roy Helland for continuing "to do his best to destroy my natural good looks.") Though Streep's not the type to meekly offer herself up to the makeup trailer. "I thought, We'll sit down and we'll talk, and Meryl will try on a few things and we'll choose one," says Frankel of Streep's look in Prada. "No. Meryl made the decision...
...educated as “citizens of the world,” to use a phrase often used by our (also outgoing) University president. Ostensibly, this goal of fostering global responsibility informs the structure of Harvard’s curriculum, the breadth of its extracurricular spheres, and even the makeup of its undergraduate classes. While Kirby surely meant to imply that learning is a duty, it strikes me as somewhat telling that he chose to articulate it so sternly as a “business.” Is it a good thing that Harvard is mixing business with pleasure...