Friday, May 9, 2003

Baseball's First Latino Owner a Symbol of Growing Influence

HispanicBusiness.com by Elliott Almond:

The latest evidence of the changing American fabric is the fact that a fourth-generation Mexican-American is expected next week to become the first Latino to own a major U.S. sports franchise.

Arturo Moreno's impending $180 million purchase of the Anaheim Angels already has become a symbolic transaction that underscores the burgeoning Hispanic population's growing influence -- one that can be charted through baseball.


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A picture named renoir.jpg Renoir Really Did Look Like An Artiste

The Art Newspaper by Samson Spanier:

London -- A new trust is gathering together precious documentary film footage of artists at work, some of it nearly 100 years old

On a cinema screen, an elderly painter squints at the trees beyond his easel, mixes a paint, and then puts brush to canvas. Who is it? None other than Claude Monet, in 1914.

The Artists on Film Trust is responsible for gathering this and any other footage of artists at work, which constitutes a virtually unknown body of art historical sources.


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