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...commercial television and intercollegiate football intersected in the immediate aftermath of World War II, the distinction between the two rapidly blurred, resulting in a fissure in the membership of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) which left the loosely-affiliated Ivy Group on the brink of withdrawing from the national body in favor of a small, self-contained conference...
...whole School of Paris, a line that stretches back four centuries to the elongated figures of Pontormo and Parmigianino. Modigliani came to Paris not only as a Jew but also as an Italian, steeped in the art of the quattrocento and the High Renaissance and their Mannerist aftermath. You find the sources of his poised, limpid line in the elegant whiplashing of Botticelli and the Madonnas of Simone Martini. And that quizzical tilt to the head that you see in his 1919 portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne? It descends from the canted heads--a sign of humility--in Renaissance depictions...
...Great talent often leads to typecasting, however, and in the aftermath of Sassy, Jun was inundated with scripts that called for a vivacious, semiviolent heroine with a slight drinking problem. Instead, Jun signed on for The Uninvited, a classic South Korean horror film that dealt with infanticide, suicide, parricide and severe wedding anxiety. The depressing film had a lukewarm performance at the box office, but the role proved she had range...
...personal level, the CID exposed me to what I perceive as the biggest challenge to development: systematic violence. Two years ago, I traveled to Rwanda with five other undergraduates to observe an experiment in transitional justice in the aftermath of the country’s 1994 genocide. Some of us spent weeks monitoring proceedings in rural courts; others interviewed more than 40 survivors, prisoners and members of parliament about grassroots justice. It was an extraordinary opportunity for us to pursue serious field research in one of the world’s poorest nations, and to have our findings published...
...stumble along our stubborn path, any exit strategy we could then design would be particularly treacherous. If we seize this last chance and do our best to make it work we might succeed. If we failed, we would then still be better off navigating withdrawal and coping with its aftermath, perhaps with more respect and resiliency to work with both abroad and at home...