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...Titian could do it all. He could make the conventions of Renaissance art more intimate and candid, or he could enlarge them, launching the Virgin theatrically into the heavens or planting her throne high among spectacular settings of classical arches and columns. It matters that he came of age just as artists were abandoning wood panels in favor of stretched canvas - especially in Venice, a maritime power where ship canvas was everywhere - and turning away from fresco or egg tempera to the relatively new and more pliant medium of oil paint. Drag a loaded brush over the textured surface...
...Boeing's stock is going to fall a lot further, but not for the reasons that analysts had guessed. The impression among investors who follow Boeing is that boneheaded management had allowed poor labor relationships and a slowdown in the launching of the company's new 777 flagship, which has been set back by well over year, to undermine the tremendous demand for the firm's planes...
...Among Yoon’s specific targets for reform is the Boston Redevelopment Authority—the City’s powerful planning and development agency responsible for approving construction projects, including Harvard’s Allston Science Complex and future expanded campus...
...Socrates, not only in its opening lines—Socrates’ famous defense “The unexamined life is not worth living” reaffirmed millennia later by the booming voice of Cornel West—but in its recreation of a world where philosophers wandered regularly among market places and stone forums. Eight of today’s most prominent thinkers are set loose from their offices and classrooms by director Astra Taylor to roam the sites of daily life—airports, parks, Fifth Avenue. While the philosophers’ ruminations lose their grounding in academic...
...Harvard affiliates were among the five Boston-area hospitals that received threatening letters Wednesday, a scare that prompted police and hazardous materials teams to rush to the scene. Police responded to reports of suspicious mail at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in the early afternoon. All the envelopes delivered to the hospitals appeared to be from the same sender, but police found no trace of powder, according to media reports and the Boston Police Department’s online log. The exact intent of the letters mailed to the hospitals remains unclear...