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...cross. El Greco's portraits are simply presented: a pale central figure looks straight out from darkness. Jerónimo de Cevallos (ca. 1610) has an immense, casually sketched-in white ruff and sable-hued clothes. There's a possibility that the subject of A Lady in a Fur Wrap (late 1570s) may be Jerónima de las Cuevas, the mother of El Greco's only son, Jorge Manuel (they never married). Her face is painted with tranquil smoothness, but her lynx fur is created by strokes dragged energetically from the wet paint of the gray wrap into...
While Harvard is laying off librarians, it’s paying six other employees—fund managers—a total of $107.5 million this year. Wrap your mind around those numbers. Six people. Over a hundred million dollars. That’s a sum so large it’s hard to fathom...
...building broke ground last September and is expected to wrap up this fall...
...series of testimonials from selected employees about the glories of the Bush tax cuts. Compared with the bracing, scruffy spontaneity of the primary, this seemed a Madame Tussaud's waxworks version of democracy. But then, George W. Bush has spent the past three years packed in political bubble-wrap, sequestered from the realities of the public square. He doesn't read the papers, or so he says. The televisions in the West Wing are tuned to the flag-brandishing filter of Fox News. Bush rarely fields a hostile question--not even, sadly, at press conferences, where he selects his interrogators...
...before that, Harvard will look to wrap-up two in-conference matchups against Colgate and Cornell tomorrow and Saturday, respectively...