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...purchase became exceptional when a friend suggested that it might be a work by Jackson Pollock and the international art community took notice. Even more exceptional, however, was the method used to authenticate it.While art scholars argued over the aesthetic aspects of the painting, a forensic art expert named Peter Paul Biro found a more material way to answer the question of authorship. Instead of looking for a vague artistic “fingerprint” of Pollock’s style, he found a literal fingerprint on the back of the canvas that matched one on a blue paint...
...unique appeal drew a crowd of over 60 members of the Harvard History of Science Colloquia to a special preview screening in the Science Center on Tuesday. SECRETS AND LIES “Secrecy” was made by Arnheim Lecturer on Filmmaking Robb Moss and Pellegrino University Professor Peter L. Galison. It explores government secrets—not with the aim of exposing them but of giving an outline to their nebulous nature in the context of democracy and its sustainability. Though at the screening Galison jokingly called the film an “impossible project?...
What was a young defensive core last season will have to recover from the loss of all-Ivy defender Tom Mikula and classmate Peter Doyle, who combined for 70 ground balls their final year...
...Powell decided to crown the Darfur conflict with the term genocide, Eggers’ book is a story not of Darfur but of one of the thousands of Lost Boys—a term that, to many, has only some vague connection with both Sudan and “Peter Pan.” A 475-page chronicle of a little-known life begs for a captivating beginning, and Eggers delivers just that. Deng’s story begins in Atlanta, where he innocently opens a door to a female stranger who promptly begins a dramatic robbery. Eggers weaves scenes...
...committee, which will be composed of Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, Professor of History Peter E. Gordon, and Emery Professor of Chemistry Eric N. Jacobsen, will draft legislation from the Task Force on General Education’s final report in order to present it for a vote before the full Faculty...