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...given the administration’s reticence to address the reasons behind Kirby’s resignation publicly—brought up differences in personality between the dean and the president as a fundamental problem between the two men.“OUR MILD-MANNERED DEAN”The portrait of Kirby as polite and conciliatory—in opposition to the less soft-spoken president—has become so familiar to professors that it is something of a cliché these days. Florence Professor of Government Gary King called him “our mild-mannered dean?...
...camera falls behind the bureaucrats and pans up to reveal a portrait of President Eisenhower hovering above silently like a ghost...
Behind him was a portrait of himself in Renaissance formal wear painted by actor Gene Hackman, according to Cramer’s nephew and consultant on the show, Cliff B. Mason ’07. Cramer befriended Hackman when the now-TV host was an investment fund manager...
...20th century Art Nouveau, attract tens of thousands of art lovers to the city each year. So it was with genuine dismay that Austrians woke one morning last week to discover that five of the artist's best-known works housed in the Belvedere Palace - including the famous golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the painting's original owner - were suddenly no longer theirs. After a seven-year legal battle, an Austrian arbitration court ruled that the paintings, valued at $150 million, were the property of a California woman who had sued Austria for ownership, and four other heirs...
...three weeks," he says. "But in the end, they will accept this price. They have no other choice. They must buy gold for weddings." Won't Indians stop buying once they begin to understand they can get better returns in stocks and mutual funds? Sitting under a portrait of the seven-kilogram crown of gold that his shop crafted for the goddess Padmavathi Devi, Padmanaban begins to rock with laughter. "It may happen, but it'll take a hundred years...