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...Lioness" by Alistair Bradley Martin was a brilliant investment. The 5,000 year-old piece of Mesopotamian religious art - presumably of Inanna, goddess of sex and war - was sold at auction by Sotheby's New York last week for a record-shattering $57.2 million. Found at an archaeological dig near Baghdad, it is an extremely rare representation of the goddess - known elsewhere as Ishtar - in animal form. She is one of the earliest of the gods whose names have survived through history. Before her sale, the most expensive piece of sculpture of any period sold at auction was a piece...
...privileges. We’re guessing it wasn’t worth it. 13) Macs Rule! No, they’re evil! PfoHo can’t make up its mind as to what kind of laptop advice to give. 14) Mather got pretty riled up over a painting near their dining hall. We hear it looked like a baby getting stabbed through a melon. 15) Adams went witch hunting over stolen salt shakers...
...professorship in the social sciences, is being tenured in the government department. He also has an appointment on the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies.Levitsky becomes part of only a handful professors who teach in the social studies program to have been tenured in the program’s nearly 50-year history, according to Dean for the Social Sciences David M. Cutler.Levitsky’s tenure announcement spread across House open lists Monday and inspired the creation of a group on Facebook.com dedicated to him. His enthusiasm for the material he teaches—and, as many...
...Near the end of the event, Teng encouraged audience members to take out the small sheets of paper that had been placed under their chairs and write a message. She then asked them to light it on fire in a bowl of water with a candle sticking...
...College Rankings, the magazine’s cash cow. U.S. News has perfectly capitalized on the zeitgeist of today’s hyper-involved parents and their overachieving children, milking every cent from their anxiety. The idea is so powerful that the magazine has started rankings for pretty darn near everything that can be ranked—from hospitals to high schools. With respect to college rankings at least, which we are best positioned to judge, the rankings do far more harm than good. Any system of shorthand that tries to generalize the individual match between students and colleges?...