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Blair's enthusiasm is shared by altruist Michael Young, Lord Young of Dartington, 84. He opened the School for Social Entrepreneurs in London two years ago and claims it is "for the high-minded and hardheaded." The school requires no academic background, and students' ages range from the 20s to the 70s with the majority of the 40 men and women graduates it has turned out so far in their 40s. It offers eight weeks of seminars to build skills in fund raising, marketing and accounting; students gain practical experience and test their ideas by working on a real project...
...history. One result is that capitalists will make up our country's next elite. The credential you will have to present to enter that virtual room in which candidates for office are chosen, educational institutions run, foreign alliances forged and social arrangements set will not be family background or educational achievement. It will be having started a successful business and made a lot of money...
...show's finest pieces is by Annette Lemieux, this year a visiting lecturer in Harvard's Visual and Environmental Studies department. "Decline," 1989, is a monumental, sepia-toned print of a pastoral scene. Recalling vintage travel posters, a snow-capped mountain ascends in the background, while the image of a waterfall cascades below. The oversize canvas has been set on the floor, leaning casually against the wall, so that at its lower edge the waterfall is cut off mid-drop. Lemieux wittily extends into the museum with a rectangle of blue plush carpet that begins on the ground where...
...From my background, I guess I grew up with a traditional notion of what they called "teaching-related exhibitions." Places like Ivy League schools think of the university art museum as a laboratory for students studying the history of art. When I started at the Rose back in the mid-1970s I was kind of naturally inclined to provide some exposure for Boston-area artists, to broaden support. For years I felt guilty that I didn't do any so-called "teaching-related exhibitions." I guess my approach was that you put up some reasonably good works and that...
...Nothing about Atom Egoyan is easy to peg or categorize, including his background. Born in Egypt in 1960 to Armenian parents, Egoyan relocated to Canada when he was three, but didn't begin speaking English until four years later. Egoyan's unique name reflects his dual heritage, as he was named "Atom" in recognition of the first nuclear reactor ever to be built in Egypt, and his last name was shortened from Yeghoyan upon the family's arrival in British Columbia...