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...female talents. Miriam Schapiro, Judy Chicago, Nancy Spero and other U.S. artists and historians, along with colleagues in Europe, began to exhume female artists of the past. They included medieval mystics and such Renaissance artists as Cremona-born Sofonisba Anguissola, who painted at the court of Philip II of Spain, and Artemisia Gentileschi of Rome, a painter's daughter who, like her father, was influenced by Caravaggio's eye-popping naturalism. To feminist admirers, the value of these women's paintings is self-evident. But some scholars complain that the sex of an artist has nothing to do with...
Partygoers who like to ring in the New Year with Dom Perignon may have to make do with his cheaper relations from California or Spain. As the holidays arrive, champagne prices are expected to start popping like corks. American consumers, who now pay about $24 for a bottle of nonvintage Moet & Chandon or Taittinger, may have to spend $30 or more this season. A combination of forces is to blame: the weak U.S. dollar, an April frost in France's Champagne region and an effort by vintners to increase profits. During the past decade, French champagne producers pitched their product...
...economically weaker countries of southern Europe -- Greece, Spain, Portugal -- also have reservations. Their principal fear is that once a single currency is created, they would lose the power to devalue their money, a useful tool for boosting exports and dealing with trade deficits...
Jean-Jacques Barrow '92, who spent the spring term in Salamanca, Spain, to master the language, says, "obviously, you learn more Spanish in Spain than at Harvard University...
George Polsky '92, who spent last fall term in Florence, Italy and the spring in Salamanca, Spain, says that most of the people he encountered in the program were Americans. "The day I got back I felt like I had never left, the reason being that there were a lot of Americans there," he says...