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...tune with the times, even an average party commissar could discern in them an inherent and uncomfortable truthfulness. Unable to get commissions, Filonov lived in poverty, occasionally working on contracts that other people procured for him in their names. Foreign collectors would offer up to $25,000 - an astonishing sum in the late 1930s - to buy a piece, but the artist consistently turned them down. He wanted to keep his works together, and he never gave up the dream of a Museum of Analytical...
...more to improve the social lives of freshman, since upperclass parties offer freshman a real opportunity to become integrated into college life, and maybe even get a little tipsy. While the upperclass party fund was not affected by the increase in the freshman party fund, budgeting is always zero sum game. Freshman year is a difficult time, but 150 extra dollars in the Freshman Party Fund isn’t going to make it any easier. There are real ways to improve campus-wide social opportunities for freshman. A UC-funded Finale-fest in the Straus Common Room isn?...
...Western diplomat in Kabul puts it, "It takes money to fund an insurgency." Of the $3 billion earned last year by Afghan narcotraffickers, roughly $800 million trickles down to the Afghan farmers who grow the crop. According to a senior Western official in Kabul, a small portion of that sum is "more than enough to finance" the insurgency--and the Taliban gets more than a small portion. "The more money the traffickers make, the more they can give to the Taliban, the more weapons the insurgents can buy and the more dangerous the insurgency becomes," says Kamal Sadaat, head...
...Internet and TV shows like Friends, are striving to connect with the outside world more than ever before, in fashion trends, food and lifestyles. Starbucks is importing its coffee-education strategy to persuade customers to splurge on a cappuccino. (A grande latte in Chengdu costs about $3.30, a huge sum in a city where locals typically earn less than $7 a day.) Starbucks has seven outlets in Chengdu (more than Peoria...
...brain in five words or less, to which he responded “Brain cells fire in patterns.” Pinker said he was surprised by his own ability to describe the brain in so few words under pressure. “I never thought I could sum up how the brain works in exactly five words!” he wrote in an e-mail after he taped the show, adding that he was “pretty nervous beforehand.” Most of the discussion focused on Pinker’s 2002 book...