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...Libraries everywhere are paying huge amounts to scholarly journals,” she added, “and that means the amount of money they can spend on other purchases is increasingly squeezed.” The program has been spearheaded by Welch Professor of Computer Science Stuart M. Shieber. According to Ryan, Shieber has appeared before the council three times in the past year and a half and has worked closely with the University Office of General Counsel to address any possible legal issues. Shieber could not be reached for comment last night. Jayne Professor of Government Jennifer...
...results will not be pretty. "Look what happened in New Jersey," says Stuart Altman, an economist and professor of national health policy at Brandeis and a longtime policy adviser on health care. The state recently revealed that it faces a $58 billion shortfall in funding for retiree health care, even larger than GM's. To meet that gap, New Jersey has asked retirees to pay more in premiums, but the state may eventually have to scale back spending on services like public colleges and mass transportation. Some cities, such as New York and Duluth, Minn., have already set up health...
...When Stuart Gordon, who directed the smartly ghoulish Re-Animator a couple decades ago, steps onstage to present his new film Stuck - a melodrama about a young woman who crashes into a pedestrian, then leaves the injured man lodged halfway through her windshield like a giant hood ornament - the mob goes appreciatively nuts. And when Gordon notes solemnly that "Every seven minutes there is a fatal car crash," someone applauds...
...uniform. The pool of potential recruits is also shrinking for other reasons: 11% of the nation's men are ultra-orthodox and excused from military service, 4% of draft-age Israelis have moved abroad, 5% are rejected for physical reasons and an estimated 5% dodge military service, according to Stuart Cohen, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University. In addition, about 18% of Israeli men drop out before finishing their three-year duty...
...1970s, everybody just knew that painting was dead; real artists did installations or sawed houses in half. But Elizabeth Murray disagreed, creating big, shaped canvases in declamatory colors featuring cartoonish references to bodily form and household objects, like Morning Is Breaking, above. Influenced by Stuart Davis, Picasso and Mir, as well as the comics she loved as a kid, Murray blended high and low within her pieces and in their exhibition; two of her large mosaic murals adorn New York City subway stops. She was 66 and had lung cancer...