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...move to a free-market economy, some 3,600 state-owned companies have been partially privatized by issuing shares to employees, managers and the public-who in turn have sold them through the Internet and in private deals with family, friends and acquaintances. This is capitalism in the raw. When deals are struck, whether online or over tea, purchasers take physical possession of the shares, and buyer and seller often go to the company's headquarters to register the change of ownership. In some cases, no registration takes place; the seller only provides a bill of sale...
...Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91. The Lowell bells, the oldest of which dates back to the 17th century, were purchased by an American industrialist just as Josef Stalin was seizing church artifacts across the Soviet Union and melting them down to raw material. The industrialist, Charles R. Crane, gave the bells to Harvard in 1930—the same year the monastery was closed. “These bells serve as a link between the past and present of the Danilovsky Monastery,” Father Roman, the bell ringer...
...many of those statistics are commonly misread. If you look at the raw data, it's clear that while Americans aren't marrying at the Ozzie and Harriet rates of the 1950s, marriage faces no dire threat today. In fact, we may have come to value marriage too much: there's good evidence that it isn't as beneficial for individuals as pro-marriage conservatives would have you believe...
...evolution of the art arbiters' prissy attitude toward comics gradually evolved, thanks in part to Raw magazine, the alternative comics showcase that Spiegelman co-edited. In the early '90s he also convened a summit of museum curators in his Soho studio to help them understand what comics were. And weren't. "Comics are not necessarily trying to do what a Van Gogh on the wall was trying to do," he said. "They aren't the same kind of direct expression. They have something more in common with architectural drawings and set design. They are picture writing that has to function...
Vilnius is a really cool, cultural city. But the restaurants aren't catering to vegans. I'm 90% raw. I bring someone with me who does my cooking...