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Puryear, who is African-American, was born and raised in Washington, D.C., where his father was a postal worker and his mother an elementary-school teacher. After college at Catholic University of America, he spent two crucial years in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone. What impressed him there most was not the tribal art but the well-made things of everyday life: baskets, boats, woven fabric. From there he moved to Sweden for two years to study printmaking and to experiment on his own with sculpture. "That's where it became pretty clear to me," he says...
...initials stand for Compagnie Française de l'Afrique Occidentale, a French trading company that once operated in Sierra Leone. Puryear connects the piece to ideas about cultural contact, about the French and Africans colliding in the place where history mingled them. I couldn't help thinking of Puryear himself, the artist venturing into the world in the mask we all wear sometimes and carrying his gifts and burdens before him. He might object. But as I said before, he's not a man to be understood too quickly. Not by us. Maybe not even by himself...
...thought there were way too many counterproductive dimensions.” Rumsfeld did not return phone messages left at his Hoover Institution office.In his time in Congress, Leach also took progressive positions on the environment and on gay rights. He won an award from the Sierra Club in 1999 and an endorsement from the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy organization, in 2006.Leach’s positions have occasionally brought him into conflict with his own party leadership. In 1996, he voted against the GOP’s nominee for speaker of the House, citing ethics concerns about...
...Sierra Club commended the University for its eco-friendly projects and initiatives, as well as for having the most buildings certified through the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System...
Despite Harvard’s progress in sustainability and the Sierra Club’s recognition, environmentalists at Harvard say they aren’t ready to rest on their laurels...