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...have four of the world's 10 most widely exposed artists; France has none. An ArtPrice study of the 2006 contemporary-art market found that works by the leading European figure - Britain's Damien Hirst - sold for an average of $180,000. The top French artist on the list, Robert Combas, commanded $7,500 per work...
Petraeus and 14 other Army generals are reviewing the files of about 2,000 colonels, looking for 40 or so worthy of promotion to brigadier general. "This is really unprecedented," says military historian Robert Scales, a retired two-star general and former head of the Army War College. "A whole new generation of officers is coming out of Iraq with new views on how wars should be fought, and its archetype is Dave Petraeus." Defense Secretary Robert Gates approved the unusual assignment, according to Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, because of Petraeus' "progressive" counterinsurgency skills, which rely on persuasion and security...
From Marshall to Rubin (June 06, 2001) When former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60 steps to the podium in Tercentenary Theater tomorrow to deliver the keynote address, he will be only the latest in a long line of influential Harvard Commencement speakers...
...exploration, which risks devolving into a blind whirlwind of American tourism. Such a devolution is risky, because tourism is an industry that caters to its customers; thus it often has a large impact on local cultural practices. Scholars have raised many concerns about this commodification of culture; as Robert Shepard writes, the tourist gaze has the power to turn culture into a spectacle and local peoples into facades of themselves —one thinks of Dave Eggers’ mountain porters on Kilimanjaro. It is sad irony that international travel can lead to the very destruction of the cultures...
...were up to Robert Egger, the 2008 campaign endorsements would carry messages like "Girl Scouts Choose Hillary" or "The Cleveland Library Votes Giuliani." Well, not exactly, but what Egger, who runs a Washington, D.C., soup kitchen, does want is for nonprofit organizations to break their traditional silence in presidential politics - a silence prompted by the complex rules governing tax-exempt status. Egger points out that nonprofits employ 14 million Americans, nearly 10% of the national workforce, and hold assets of $1.76 trillion. "We've got to organize," Egger urges, "take our seat at the table and be heard...