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...engaged" to Becky Thatcher. It is an age of prodigy: Anne Frank received her diary as a present on her 13th birthday; Bobby Fischer was 13 when he became the youngest player ever to win the U.S. Junior Chess Championship--within two years he was an international grand master. It is the age of childhood leaning forward and adulthood holding back, when the world gets suddenly closer, the colors more vivid, the rules subject to never ending argument...
...extraordinary things about Degas was that he was a draftsman like none other, a great master of the pastel, really an innovator in printmaking, and a pioneering photographer as well,” said Wolohojian. “Our collection has truly central works in all those media so that we are able to really assess the full range of the artists’ work...
...Sometimes, however, it's the collectors who are the ones conned. The skilled carvers of the Sepik are also master forgers - and skulls feature prominently in their repertoire. Anthropologist Garnier examined images of the seized skulls for Time, and believes they are, as Stuttgen claims, modern imitations. Should they prove to be genuine, he says they could be worth more than $12,000 in Europe, especially in the Netherlands, which has become a clearing house for such items. Even if they are not ancient items, however, the bones have to be sourced from somewhere. Eoe says the villagers may have...
...mother only practiced the rhythms of her tongue every two or three years on family visits. When I decided that I, too, wanted in, I was long past the age to master the delicate accents, and I deserted the whim. It was simpler to skip over my middle name—Hoang-Ngoc, an unpronounceable compound word that means “yellow jade”—and abbreviate...
Steven R. Nelson, the executive director of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at the Business School, sent e-mails to about 30 MBA candidates who had internships in London. Although not every student has replied, Nelson said that Harvard’s MBA students in London had contacted each other, concluding that no one had been hurt by the blasts...