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Six years ago, New York City agreed to hold correction officers at the notorious Rikers Island jail complex more accountable for misconduct, as part of a legal settlement with federal prosecutors after years of complaints about abuses by guards.
But an analysis of a newly released database of disciplinary records, while limited, shows that violence by guards continues to be a problem in the cityâs jail system. The records suggest that attempts by guards to cover up excessive use of force or other infractions have been pervasive.
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UMass Boston Relaxes Policy On Withholding Transcripts For Any Debt Owed
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story aired on March 22, a spokesman for UMass Boston which has nearly 10,000 students, graduates and former students who can t get their academic records because they owe money said the university withholds transcripts for unpaid balances in any amount.
On Thursday, however, Provost Joseph Berger said that policy has been changed and the university now only holds transcripts for debts exceeding $1,000.
“We’ve changed that during the pandemic,” Berger said.
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.- Long overshadowed by the rise of abstract expressionism in the 1950s, magic realisms reputation is on the way up again. The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is presenting the exhibition Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism from February 27 to June 13, 2021, seeking to reexamine how we define magic realism and expand the canon of artists who worked within this category. The term magic realism was popularized in 1943 during the exhibition American Realists and Magic Realists at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), organized by curator Dorothy C. Miller with assistance from museum director Alfred H. Barr Jr. and arts impresario Lincoln Kirstein. The Georgia Museum of Arts exhibition includes works originally presented in MoMAs show, including paintings by Ivan Albright, Paul Cadmus, Z. Vanessa Helder and Patsy Santo, as well as other . More
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