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...jewels students collect asundergraduates--be they top grades or leadershippositions--will not just adorn their resumes. Manystudents who succeed in the recruiting processlater compete for other prized offers, this timefrom top business schools...
Perhaps the print of Fritzner's painting should have been removed long ago because a five dollar poster among the many valuable portraits of dead white men that adorn the Lowell House dining Hall is out of place. But the issue of appropriateness never had the chance to come up, because the print was removed too quickly. Fritzner Alphonse and those who appreciate his art deserve a fair hearing...
...symmetrical antithesis to the Angel Holding the Superscription is the Angel Holding the Crown of Thorns. Though Bernini himself sketched the clay ideas for several of the angels that now adorn the Ponte Sant' Angelo, the marble statues themselves were carved under his direction by his pupil Lazzaro Morelli. Another of the clay sketches for the Tiber River bridge project, the Angel Holding the Tabernacle is an exquisite metaphor in terracotta for the power of divine influence...
...reminded of the words of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: "Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." A prominent plaque bearing this caveat should adorn the halls of Washington as a reminder that insidious power can destroy our great institutions, even the presidency. VICTOR E. DELUCIA Valley Village, Calif...
...Leona Helmsley. Thanks to the persistent pleas of nine-year-old New Yorker Mallory Blair Greitzer, the Empire State Building's overseer has agreed to bathe the skyscraper in blue and white on Dec. 23 to mark the first night of Hanukkah. The usual red and green that adorn the spire during the Christmas season will return the next evening...