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...Over the past two years, we have all benefited tremendously from Phelan's five-year plan to improve the VES program. Recent visiting faculty members include sculptor Joel Shapiro, performance artist/dancer/filmmaker Yvonne Rainer and photographer Boris Mikhailov; renowned director Hal Hartley and photographer Nan Goldin, along with many others, will come to the program next year. Working with these artists has provided us as students tremendous insight into the practice of the visual arts, opportunities to discuss our work at a professional level of criticism and connections with many artists with whom we will stay in touch after...
...Harvard for the past two years has been overall a rewarding experience for Wang. "I've worked with Boris Mikhailov. I'm working with Carrie Mae Weems. There're all these different perspectives, all these brilliant people. To be able to work with people like this, to think how they're thinking, is an incredible experience...
...down his visa application for the third time. Oleg Deripaska, head of the giant firm Russian Aluminum, did not attend the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos last week; the group withdrew its invitation after a fellow businessman filed a lawsuit accusing him of bribery and racketeering. Sergei Mikhailov, an entrepreneur who spent a little over two years in a Swiss jail on charges of heading a Mafia family before being released in December 1998 for lack of evidence, raged at a press conference in Moscow late last month: "America is now denied me, Europe is denied me, even...
...Like Borodin or Mikhailov, these rejectees have not been proved guilty of any specific crime that would warrant their exclusion. Yet perhaps it is good that they must stay home. Too many of the Russian high and mighty have used their positions over the past decade of reform to line their pockets. Graft is universal. Last year an estimated $24.6 billion left Russia, money garnered mostly through bribery, kickbacks and outright theft and sent to private accounts in offshore banks. That's an increase of 30% over 1999, and the total capital drain from Russia over the past decade...
...Mikhailov apparently regards journalists in much the same way he views Chechens. If anyone has visited the other side in this war, he says unsmilingly as we prepare to take off from Moscow, don't mention it to Russian soldiers. You could have "serious problems...