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...Gazing now at a 150-year-old ambrotype photograph of her convict forebear, Upfold sounds proud and protective. She will not brook any suggestion that Anne Dunne was other than a brave soul who endured a myriad of hardships while at the female factory in the settlement of Parramatta, now a commercial center in western Sydney. Dunne eventually married a lifer named James Tompkins and experienced, Upfold speculates, times of joy in a land where she chose to live out her post-convict years. "In life, you've got to go forward," Upfold says...
...area on the eastern stretch of the Vasari mural, behind which, he asserts, lies the masterpiece. Having looked at sketches and copies of Anghiari, I strain to tap into an inner X-ray to see through the mural to the Leonardo behind. The original, a Renaissance forebear of Pablo Picasso's Guernica, was described by Italian writer Anton Francesco Doni as a "miraculous" rendering of the ravages of war. The battle depicted was a key victory of the Florentine Republic, which may help explain why Vasari was asked to paint over it by his Medici patrons, who were enemies...
...include a focus on the impact of the Indian diaspora on American life. Supporters of the proposed curriculum are insisting that the report not be judged by any superficial similarities to the existing framework. Rather, they say, the new proposal presents a guiding philosophy far removed from its forebear. “This is emphatically NOT the Core,” Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, the co-chair of the Gen Ed task force, wrote in an e-mail last night. “Our proposal is subject based rather than discipline based.” But at least...
...centuries, Muslims have flocked to Mecca, Jews have traveled to the Western Wall, and Christian pilgrims have followed the Stations of the Cross. But if a negotiation expert at Harvard Law School has his way, adherents of the faiths that claim the prophet Abraham as a forebear will have a reason to walk together in the Middle East.On Tuesday, delegates from 10 countries, led by William L. Ury, director of the Harvard Global Negotiation Project (GNP), concluded a two-week tour of some of the Middle East’s most ancient and holy sites. The tour participants were looking...
...aquiline features and elegant but easygoing manner, Elkann certainly evokes his grandpa, among the 20th century's most admired business leaders and the epitome of globetrotting savoir faire. Henry Kissinger, a longtime close Agnelli friend, says it's too early to try to measure Elkann up to his legendary forebear. But having known the grandson since he was 12, Kissinger says Elkann has all the tools to become a formidable leader. "He is extremely intelligent and has a great sense of responsibility," Kissinger told Time. "I've seen, in the past few years, he has managed several crises with extreme...