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While the offense couldn’t capitalize on its many chances, the young defense kept Harvard in the game, allowing only a first-half goal from CCSU freshman Brittany Emin. In the eighteenth minute, senior Jessica McCavanagh made a nice cross inside the Harvard eighteen into a tangle of Crimson defensemen and Blue Devil forwards. Emin emerged from the scrum and poked the ball past Mann into the left corner...
...usually modern art that aims to overturn preconceptions, but a new show of 19th century paintings delivers more shocks than Tracey Emin. One revelation is embedded in the title - "Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900." The very concept of "black Victorians" may surprise. There had, of course, been Africans in Britain long before Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, but in the 19th century they were a familiar sight - not that you'd know that from most accounts of the old Queen's reign. Yet the show's curator, Jan Marsh, discovered that Victorian art depicted many...
...scarcity and notoriety increase demand for their surviving works. Possible winners (and losers): Patrick Heron The late artist, whose acclaimed modern paintings anticipated Britart, lost about 50 pieces. Scarcity might mean remaining works, like Azalea Garden (1956), which shows at London's Tate Britain this week, will appreciate. Tracey Emin Although two of Emin's most iconic installations burned, including Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1995), experts see no potential impact on the value of her other works, nor on her already fiery rep. Damien Hirst At first thought to have perished, Hirst's 7-m bronze statue Charity...
...could prove embarrassing to Turkey's security forces, which once cultivated the group as a proxy militia in their 15-year war against Kurdish separatists. That old association probably accounts for the astonishing speed with which police rounded up their suspects. "These men were known to [the police]," says Emin Sirin, a former minister in Turkey's Parliament. "They are no strangers...
...could prove embarrassing to Turkey's security forces, which once cultivated the group as a proxy militia in their 15-year war against Kurdish separatists. That old association probably accounts for the astonishing speed with which investigators rounded up their suspects. "These men were known to [the police]," says Emin Sirin, a former member of parliament for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. "They are no strangers...