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...Samara A. Barend has long flirted with politics...
...training regimen, with a view to handing over many of the security functions that currently leave U.S. soldiers vulnerable. But there is, at the same time, a war on, and the insurgents are unlikely to give a new provisional government a chance. The recent experience in the town of Samara may be instructive: After U.S. forces withdrew to a garrison a few miles out of town, insurgents quickly overran the base of the Iraqi security forces, necessitating a quick return by the Americans to disperse them...
...panel included Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett Barrios ’90, U.S. Congressional hopeful Samara Barend and 2002 candidate for the Massachusetts State Legislature Dave Friedman ’93, who is also an HLS graduate. Barend, 26, is currently a second-year Masters student...
...critic who participated in Inkombank's acquisition of the Black Square. "Naively, we thought the works would be safer in their hands." Nikich recalls how he heard of this Black Square when he was running one of Moscow's first commercial art fairs. "A woman called up from Samara, claiming to have a Malevich. Of course, we all laughed." But when the head of the Samara branch of Inkombank called and said that relatives of Malevich were offering a Black Square, Nikich joined other experts in traveling to Samara to take a closer look...
...Samara owners, distant relatives of the sister of the artist's widow, "just wanted to get rid of it," says another art historian who also saw the painting in Samara. For years, they had hidden it from bandits-at one point in a kgb safe, at another in a crate of potatoes. They were convinced that whoever kept the painting met with misfortune, and with good reason: the young man who brought the canvas to the bank disappeared for days afterward only to resurface in a battered, confused state, the victim of a shakedown by racketeers...