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...Politics and the Center for European Studies are now only available to students with passports from the European Union, Australia, Canada, Japan, or New Zealand. The visa troubles have already impacted students’ summer plans. Anna Raginskaya ’11 spent last summer as an intern at Sotheby??s Auction House in London. At the end of her internship, she was offered an unpaid position for the following summer, an opportunity she had to decline recently due to work permit complications. “It was a really painful situation,” Raginskaya said...
...created equal.These days, if you want to be a successful artist, chances are you’ll want to be a visual artist and not a poet. If you happen to make it big as a painter, you might just auction off something for half a million at Sotheby??s or Christie’s. Making it big as a poet means you might sell about 50,000 copies. “And let’s assume the writer makes a dollar a book,” adds Emily K. Vasiliauskas ’07, a poet...
...University has buildings named for Dennis Kozlowski, Frank Walsh and Robert Brennan, known more for committing major corporate crimes than for their generosity. At Harvard, a significant portion of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is housed in a building named for A. Alfred Taubman, the former chairman of Sotheby??s who went to jail last April after being convicted of a price fixing scheme that involved vast sums. It is an embarrassment that the facility of our school for ‘good government’ is named for so unscrupulous a figure...
...Office for the Arts. What I have tried to do since, perhaps pushily, is expand that role into general arts advocacy. Of course there are and have been other Overseers similarly impassioned: I think of Dick Oldenburg, the former head or the Museum of Modern Art and of American Sotheby??s and last year’s president of the Overseers, who was no mean arts advocate himself, especially in the visual arts...
This is not the Taubman family’s first run-in with the law. A. Alfred Taubman is currently serving out a sentence for price fixing while he directed the Sotheby??s auction house...