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McCulloh has been pursuing these blind photographers for more than a decade, and began pitching the idea of this show four years ago. But the time became right this year, he says because "I'm convinced of its importance. The main trigger is that I've seen a real groundswell of interest around the world in a whole lot of different places, including Tel Aviv, Czechoslovakia, Mexico City, London, Los Angeles.... I felt like the movement was really there." Thanks to crowds and critical acclaim, the exhibit seems likely to show again in Mexico City after leaving Riverside...
Next door to the museum is the Sweeney Art Gallery, where curator Tyler Stallings has seen a steady stream of visitors. "It's definitely a show that's brought in a lot of people who may have never been here, even though they live in the area," says Stallings. He notes that while the show certainly has a curiosity element, the work is not presented in a "superficial" way. He explains that shows that target a "self-defined" community, such as a certain ethnicity, "can oftentimes make it a marginalized exhibition. What's nice about this show is that Doug...
...large and mid-sized firms have turned to a surprising cost-cutting strategy: paying incoming first-year associates - whose starting annual salaries at Manhattan firms is $160,000 - not to show up. So far this year, Marshall and hundreds of other third-year law students at prestigious schools have seen their job start dates pushed back anywhere from just a few months to a full year, leaving those affected scrambling to find other options to fill the time off. "To get my stipend from Kirkland, I can't take on any other paid legal work," says Marshall, whose...
...such as the Legal Aid Society, now have their pick of top law school graduates - most of whom will arrive with a paid salary and health benefits attached. But the public-interest groups still have to finance the infrastructure required for an extra person on staff. Many nonprofits have seen their own revenues fall in recent months and undertaken layoffs themselves. Just finding the money for another computer can be hard, says Esther Lardent, president of the Washington-based nonprofit Pro Bono Institute, never mind the cost of training and supervising of a brand-new lawyer. "Morale and office tensions...
...very dangerous time to enter," says a former adviser to Formula One teams. "They enter on the understanding the budgets will be as low as they're now being predicted, or that the rules will be as stable as they're now being described. But we've seen it before - things can change very, very quickly...