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...foot inside the graveyard at Monticello. Paulie Abeles, the wife of the association's president at the time, even admitted to having secretly infiltrated an online discussion group that the Hemings had been using, in order to spy on their messages. "It was just an ugly, ugly situation," says Lucian Truscott IV, the Jefferson descendant and association member who originally invited the Hemings...
...thin, gray puddles and slip through the doors of London's National Portrait Gallery - a slow, steady stream of women shaking the rain from our umbrellas and asking, with just a hint of excitement, for directions to Room 41. Deep in the belly of the gallery, beyond the Lucian Freuds and the Cecil Beatons, Room 41 sits hushed and darkened. I join 11 visitors curled cross-legged on the floor, gazing at a 1-m-wide plasma screen where a shirtless blond man lies sleeping: David Beckham, of course. Who else would it be? I settle into a corner...
...DIED. LUCIAN ADAMS, 80, World War II hero; in San Antonio, Texas. As a U.S. Army sergeant whose company had been wiped out in France, Adams single-handedly charged forward to kill nine Germans, eliminate three machine guns and reopen a severed supply line to an isolated American battalion--for which he won the Medal of Honor. Later, as a benefits counselor for the Veterans Administration, he never mentioned that he had been in combat...
...actor Pablo de Valladolid with Manet's 1865-66 The Tragic Actor, Portrait of Rouvi?re in the role of Hamlet. With 40 paintings and drawings, Manet dominates the show, but the five Velázquez portraits alone are worth the long lines out front. Constable, the Choice of Lucian Freud at the Grand Palais is the first retrospective of the 19th century English landscape artist ever mounted in France, and it marks the first time a contemporary artist has been invited to curate a major show at the Grand Palais. As a teenager in exile from Germany in 1939, Freud...
Professor of Law, Economics and Finance Lucian A. Bebchuk, Professor of Economics Oliver D. Hart, Ford Professor of Business Administration Michael C. Jensen and Professor of Law Mark J. Roe will be the other four fellows from Harvard...