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...SCHOLAR AT RISK...
...Beydulla applied for one of the year-long fellowships and was a Harvard Scholar at Risk last year...
...video that accompanies his Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan, Liu Chenhua explains that he started painting pictures of Mao when he was a child "because I have always had deep feelings for him." Those sentiments come through in his depiction of Mao as a handsome young scholar standing on a mountaintop under swiftly moving clouds. With Jiang Qing's endorsement, it became a "model artwork" and was reproduced more than 900 million times. In the video, Liu explains that a group of printers came to him apologizing that his given name, Chenghua, had been misspelled as Chenhua on the first...
...hero, Cúchulainn, who’s a BAMF if ever there was one. 2. Fleet Foxes. The album cover of their self-titled debut features a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder entitled “Netherlandish Proverbs.” As any HAA 10 scholar could tell you, the work was painted in 1559, making it pretty fucking arcane. Filled with scenes of folly and absurdity, the original work depicts a great many common proverbs, and is an apt choice for the cover of Fleet Foxes’ brilliantly folksy LP. 3. Nick Cave?...
...declaration was released during a period of sensitive anniversaries. It comes 60 years after the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which Chinese scholar P.C. Chang helped draft, and 30 years after Deng Xiaoping launched the economic liberalization that would transform China into a capitalist powerhouse. It was also 30 years ago that activists in Beijing posted signs on a Democracy Wall calling for political reform, including electrician Wei Jingsheng's declaration that Deng Xiaoping's campaign for Four Modernizations in agriculture, defense, industry and technology was meaningless without a fifth modernization, democracy. "It's quite a moving...