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...this struggle for the soul of American art is mapped in all its fitful chaos in the Whitney Museum's mammoth, frenetic show, "The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000," part two of a yearlong survey, on view through Feb. 13. The first installment of the retrospective, covering 1900 to 1950, was all about American artists striving to find their identity in the shadow of European masters--and finally making the leap with the figure-breaking canvases of Pollock. The sequel shows the rampantly imaginative shattering of that identity from Pollock onward, shuttling at high speed between the spiritually...
Just after participating in a yearlong journalism program at Harvard in 1996-97, Caballero recalled one of her first stories back in her home country. She was sent to cover a massacre in which more than 30 people were killed, literally "cut in pieces," she said. It was just one example of how journalists are constantly reporting on violence and putting themselves in situations where extremely malicious people are ready to take action, she said...
Gates had many unusual experiences over the yearlong filming of the series, including riding a camel through the Sahara desert with Tuareg nomads and hoisting himself up a rock face to reach the oldest church in Ethiopia...
...other big news of the summer came when a new principal was hired at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS), the city's only public high school. Paula Evans was chosen in June after a yearlong search to become only the second full-time principal in CRLS's 22-year history...
...Ohio law professor ? who thinks that bans on "soft money" are a violation of free speech ? appointed to fill a GOP vacancy on the board of the Federal Election Commission. Bill Clinton doesn?t want that, and so the U.S.? star Balkan negotiator is, once again, stymied in his yearlong attempt to take his seat at the U.N. (His nomination was put on hold during an eight-month federal ethics investigation that cleared him of wrongdoing.) A full Senate vote could now be weeks away...