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...afternoon were treated to the sounds of five undergraduate klappermeisters honing their bell ringing skills. High above in the belltower, students pressed footpedals as others pulled at an intricate web of ropes above. Their teachers included none other than the bell ringer of the Kremlin, Igor Konovalov, and Hierodeacon Roman Ogryzkov, chief bell ringer of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. The Russian musical duo is teaching three master classes to the five undergraduate members of the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers. Their visit is the result of a long saga centered on the acquisition of the bells...
...same, while the Albright-Knox is mainly a contemporary collection, it's also the only significant art museum in Buffalo. The local Museum of Science also has examples of Greek, Roman and Egyptian artifacts, but for anyone in that city hoping to see a range of art, the Albright-Knox is pretty much the only game in town. So its deaccession plan led to an angry public meeting in March at which Grachos was confronted by residents insisting he could have done more to find other sources of money...
...prospect of having their cultural patrimony carted off to Arkansas, the good people of Philadelphia reared up like Italians hearing that plundered Roman marbles were being earmarked for Malibu. By the end of January they had cobbled together enough real or potential financing to keep the Eakins at home in a joint purchase by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the much smaller Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), with the same kind of back-and-forth lending between the two institutions. Then came the next shock. To defray its part of the purchase, PAFA announced it was selling...
...Vatican official says that Benedict believes that the Council's legacy "has been abused," and finding a way to widen access to the Latin rite "has always remained in his heart." Still, even mainstream members of the Roman hierarchy are opposed, fearing that it will exacerbate divisions within the Church. French bishops have openly argued against it. The Pope's old office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith last spring, privately advised against the motu proprio, the Vatican official said. Still, Benedict does not appear swayed. The professor Pope may be happy to have a conversation on doctrine...
...Plenty else has changed already. The petrol bombs and bullets that the walls used to hold back have stopped flying. Guards at the gate no longer keep their guns conspicuously unholstered. In fact, so much has changed in the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) that when a young Roman Catholic like Rory Fitzpatrick--who just 15 years ago could have viewed the force as his natural enemy--explains why he joined in 2004, his answers are unremarkable: Good prospects, good work, good pay. "Everyone seems to have us pigeonholed as sectarian, not police but soldiers," says Fitzpatrick, 27. "That...