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...Craft has been absent from the diet for so long, it feels new to a certain generation of designers," says Murray Moss, owner of Moss, a popular New York City design store. "Thirteen years ago, injected molded plastics were the fascination. But that has kind of played itself out. Now wood, paper and ceramic feel...
...covered extensively on TV and in the newspapers, with many outlets giving prominent display to two dismembered and charred bodies hanging from a bridge. Since that image was so widely seen, I chose a much less familiar one: a group of Iraqis pointing to two victims on the ground absent the frenzied mobs playing to the cameras. By my lights, this photo, with its matter-of-fact air, is as chilling as the scene that received saturation coverage...
...stepped up its campaign of assassination of top Hamas leaders and military actions to suppress the organization's capability to launch strikes inside Israel or indeed in Gaza itself. The result, however, has been an escalating cycle of violence in Gaza that shows no sign of abating. And absent any political incentive for making the plan work, it's unlikely that the Palestinian leadership will do much to tamp it down, even if they could. Absent a Palestinian structure taking charge of security in the wake of an Israeli withdrawal, the Israelis are trying to do the job themselves before...
That should mean the return of junior Alexis Martire at No. 4 singles and No. 2 doubles. She was absent during the final three Ancient Eight contests of the season after dropping a three-setter against Penn on April...
...Robert E. Lee. Nearby, however, Elliott just as proudly displays newspaper clippings of his late great-uncle, a real-life Atticus Finch who defended blacks in the era of Jim Crow. Elliott, 64, has struggled a lifetime to reconcile these mixed images of the South. But one picture noticeably absent from his gallery is that of his late grandfather, R.M. Elliott, a wealthy sawmill owner and former Summerton school-board chairman who, in the 1940s, refused to provide bus transportation for black students to reach their segregated schools, which were often 10 miles or more from their homes...