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Dozens of ancient coins, Babylonian bas-reliefs, Assyrian and Egyptian monuments, and Hittite tablets found a home at Harvard in 1903 thanks largely to the generosity of one man, Jacob Henry Schiff...
Last year, Blackmun refused to rule on the merits of the Ames case in order to avoid setting a legal precedent in moot court, Schiff said. While Brennan may avoid voicing an opinion on the legal issues involved in this year's case, the competition could influence future legal rulings, because attorneys engaged in similar disputes may draw on students' arguments...
Rabbi Solomon Schiff, who directs prison chaplains for the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, argues that there is an "unbreakable bond" between clergyman and congregant An that is protected by the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of religious freedom. Agrees fellow Rabbi Brett Goldstein: "While under biblical law I have the right to reveal information of a criminal nature when that information could prevent another crime, it is not an obligation. Religious questions are between me and my God, and not between me, my God and the state." Michael Fitzgerald, a lawyer for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, maintains that...
Because of this indifference, it is only now, eleven years since Picasso's death, that a properly done museum show of his last decade can be seen in New York City. It nearly foundered on the way: organized by Art Historian Gert Schiff for New York University's Grey Art Gallery, it was first canceled for lack of funds, and then revived by the Guggenheim Museum, where it opened March 2. A show like this cannot pretend to contain all the evidence; apart from a huge output of drawings and prints, Picasso made perhaps 400 paintings...
...Schiff s catalogue essay does an excellent job of dissecting and analyzing the themes of late Picasso, but there are moments when he goes right off the edge. The last period, he declares, "is not a 'swan song,' but the apotheosis of his career." A ten-dollar word: it means transformation into a god. It is what mad Nero dreamed of; and now, on the theological authority vested in the Guggenheim Museum and its trustees, it has come to "Ol' Cojones...