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Poignant, Picturesque and Berserk: Northern Indian Paintings and Objects of the 17th through 19th Centuries. Through Oct. 4. More than 25 paintings, drawings and objects from the Mughai and Rajput courts and from British India. Varying from the nightmarish to the comical and from the serious to the satirical, the show highlights the unusual in Indian...
Panagopoulos said he decided to represent his party in the 17th Middlesex district, which includes Dracut and part of Lowell, only after he was encouraged repeatedly by State Sen. Nancy E. Achan Sullivan...
Equal parts joy and relief seemed to wash over Milwaukee Brewer Robin Yount after spanking his 3,000th career hit and becoming only the 17th player (and third youngest) in baseball history to achieve that lofty mark. "I've taken quite a bit of heat," said the 37-year-old shortstop and centerfielder, referring to the ribbing he got from his teammates during his chase. He had gone hitless in his last seven at bats. Yount will go down in the record books: so will Cleveland hurler Jose Mesa, as the guy who threw the pitch that Yount swatted into...
...Shirt, a brooding narration of the settling of Greenland and Vinland. Fathers and Crows has six glossaries, endless footnotes, maps and epigraphs, a 47-page biography of St. Ignatius Loyola and nearly 1,000 pages. It relates Jesuit efforts to convert Huron and Iroquois Indians in the early 17th century, but the author prepares his narration so thoroughly that major characters are not introduced before the book's tardy midpoint...
From time to time the best minds wondered whether this wasn't a hell of a way to run a planet; perhaps national sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all. Dante in the 14th century, Erasmus in the 16th and Grotius in the 17th all envisioned international law as a means of overcoming the natural tendency of states to settle their differences by force...