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...million gift is not the novelist’s first contribution to the University. She previously donated art related to her controversial belief that a well-known Impressionist painter, Walter Sickert, was the 19th-century killer Jack the Ripper...
...Cornwell departed from her usual fiction writing to advance this argument in her book “Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-Case Closed.” She used forensic research techniques to argue that Sickert, an English painter, was, in fact, the serial killer...
...research on Jack the Ripper, Cornwell used Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, where the new position will be established. She traveled with a team of scientists, including Harvard conservator Anne Driesse, in the fall of 2005 to study papers and inks in England...
...looked at 400 Jack the Ripper letters in the National Archive in London. Cornwell was trying to confirm that most of these letters were by Walter Sickert,” Driesse said...
...Tiny Dancer and expect an ear-pleasing result. But then again, most people don't have an ear like Pittsburgh native Gregg Gillis, better known as the one-man band, Girl Talk. The musical misfit and laptop magician broke into the mainstream with his 2006 hit album Night Ripper, whose 16 tracks sampled more than 150 artists, from Abba to 2 Live Crew to Aerosmith. His latest album, Feed the Animals, is already available online; the CD is out November 3rd. TIME spoke with Gillis about the art (and science) of sampling and what it's like to create...