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...Sulayman Al-Bassam uses him for subversive ends. "If you are an Arab theater maker looking to take a pop at authority, Shakespeare is your perfect bedmate, co-conspirator and alibi," he has said. Such is the yearning for catharsis in the Middle East that, when he took his Richard III to Egypt, it provoked a near riot among people who couldn't get tickets...
Following in the footsteps of universities including Harvard, Yale University will create a School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Yale President Richard C. Levin announced Monday. This announcement aims to reunite the departments into a cohesive SEAS, led by Dean of Engineering T. Kyle Vanderlick, who joined Yale at the beginning of the calendar year as the chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering. “Engineering is more than a collection of individual departments,” Vanderlick said. She compared specialization in engineering to chosing a particular field of study in medical school...
...initiative to distribute 2,500 works of contemporary art to 50 selected art institutions throughout the country. The Vogels’ collection includes works of more than 170 contemporary artists. Among the artists whose works will be sent to HUAM are Michael Goldberg, Edda Renouf, Richard Tuttle, and Stephen Antonakos. Herbert Vogel, 85, a retired postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, 73, a retired reference librarian, told The Austin Chronicle, “we bought art we could afford and that would fit into the apartment.” The couple began collecting art in the 1960s and started lending pieces...
...Highly educated, sophisticated, and wealthy, the Harvard audience is a lucrative niche for any advertiser,” Kim wrote in a 2004 memo about the magazine. At the time, he said that the circulation would near 100,000. When reached by The Crimson, Kim and Richard Bradley, the magazine’s executive editor, would not comment on the upcoming deal. Sandow Media, based out of Boca Raton, Fl., recently bought the money magazine Worth, and also owns the plastic surgery-oriented magazine NewBeauty. Sandow Media’s current publications target wealthy readers—the same audience...
...still boast of the fact that Jack Kennedy was elected by guys like them. Philadelphia gave Kennedy a 330,000-vote plurality in 1960, enough to swamp the rest of the state. Back then, Pennsylvania had as many electoral votes as California, a state Kennedy lost to native son Richard Nixon...