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...Minuto’s] position is legally and factually without merit, [and] his conduct has been dishonest,” Harvard’s brief concluded...
...Minuto’s] position is legally and factually without merit, [and] his conduct has been dishonest,” Harvard’s brief concluded...
Long tainted with the romance and condescension of the word primitive, African works have come to be valued for their intrinsic beauty and artistic merit. In the 1950s, both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art turned down an opportunity to acquire Nelson Rockefeller's extensive collection of non-European art, prompting Rockefeller to found the Museum of Primitive Art in New York City in 1954. By 1969 the Met had had a change of heart. In 1982 it opened its Rockefeller Wing, which absorbed the entire contents of the Museum of Primitive Art. Smaller galleries...
...illegal" transfer that "threatens to destabilize Serbia" [VIEWPOINT, July 9]. While it is fortunate that no global police force exists, the enforcement tools for international justice indeed are political and economic pressure. These have been applied for years to assist a legitimate war-crimes tribunal whose indictments merit enforcement. Fear of turmoil usually precedes justice. Over time, Milosevic's joust with international justice will undergird Serbia's emerging democracy. DAVID J. SCHEFFER U.S. Institute of Peace Washington...
...news on the scale of, say, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk or the Tet offensive, but we will have to redefine the word news if we say that the disappearance of a United States Congressman's mistress, and her possible murder (by whom? by him?), does not merit some notice in the media...