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...legal process of registering her after-school program, which she calls "Da Vinci Days," as a nonprofit business with additional teachers and students...
...Brooklyn, N.Y., one of more than 1,000 Core Knowledge schools nationwide, it already has. Student imitations of Van Gogh and Jackson Pollock paintings decorate the hallways. And at neighboring P.S. 165, also a Core Knowledge school, a third-grade class has christened its pet rabbit Leonardo--after Da Vinci, not DiCaprio...
...well change the school colors to yellow and granola. The official excuse would probably be that students need all 32 half-courses to really complete a Harvard education. Really. I seriously doubt that you'll even remember what you learned in Literature and Arts B-57, "Leonardo da Vinci Meets Leonardo di Caprio" two years later--in its place will be jokes you got over e-mail and "Dawson's Creek" plotlines. The Harvard Corps experience would last a lifetime...
Professor Elaine Scarry points to a print hanging on the wall of her office, an anatomical diagram of a human leg, surrounded by notes in Leonardo Da Vinci's backwards handwriting. Intently, she traces the writing as it merges with the drawing...
...bonus, the novel is wrapped in the most attractive book jacket in recent memory: a reproduction of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, her eyes signaling both anxiety and expectation. Now if Chevalier could be persuaded to take on Leonardo da Vinci, she might have him ask the smirking Mona Lisa, "What's so damn amusing...