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...More than a patriot, Jefferson was a visionary statesman with just enough tenderness to make him a historic but flawed human being." NELSON ALBA North Miami Beach...
...care facilities. If in the process he can get a signature building or two - a Gehry, or a Norman Foster like London's Swiss Re tower - so much the better. But it won't happen soon. "Now we're taking care of the garden, preparing the earth," says Dominique Alba, director general of Le Pavillon de l'Arsenal, the city's architectural center, and a close adviser to Delanoë. "Later we can do the gastronomy." Some people don't like the menu. No surprise there: Parisians have always been ferociously protective of their skyline. In 1887, writers Alexandre Dumas...
...Maria de Jesus Quiej-Alvarez, who were joined at the skull and faced different directions, are progressing well after a 50-member team at Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA worked around the clock to separate the shared skull and untangle the blood vessels that connected them. Born to Alba Leticia Alvarez, 23, and Wenceslao Quiej Lopez, 21, a banana packer, the girls, whose development prior to the surgery was normal, have been given a good chance of survival...
...that, having seen The Naked Maja, 1797-1800, one of the most famous woman images in art next to the Mona Lisa: the second most famous nude in Spain after Velazquez's Rokeby Venus, and the first with pubic hair. She was not, by the way, the Duchess of Alba, with whom--contrary to legend--Goya almost certainly had no sexual affair. She, like her companion piece The Clothed Maja, 1800-05, was most probably a Malagan cutie named Pepita Tudo, the mistress of Prime Minister Manuel Godoy. There are portraits of Alba in the show, though neither, alas...
...professor’s hesitation in actually exploring the question of Alba occurs all too frequently in Harvard classrooms. Intriguing questions pop up all the time in science classes only to be batted down as irrelevant because they deal with the humanities or they are neglected because there isn’t enough time to address every issue. Moral dilemmas, social implications of scientific research and even the aesthetics of green bunnies are all dismissed as beyond the scope of the material of the course. In some respects, the professor who brought up Alba is way ahead of his colleagues...