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...allies' show of might and the possibility that the U.S. air strikes may have picked off Saddam initially raised hopes that a war so widely dreaded would come to a mercifully short end. Even some White House officials wondered aloud whether the opening-night salvo and the rapid advance of American ground forces might render the "shock and awe" of the Pentagon's planned assault unnecessary. But the battlefield picture remained too muddled for allied commanders to hold their fire for long...
...unnamed new student group meets one evening a month to read one of Shakespeare’s works aloud. On Feb. 27, they tackled Julius Caesar...
...Rogers family, and when we were little, Peter and I would go upstairs during services to the playroom where every few weeks we restless children were joined by Mister Rogers. He would appear in the doorway without fanfare, slip into the room and start reading a book aloud, or talking earnestly with a five-year-old about a new puppy or little brother, or just sit at one of the miniature tables, his long legs tucked up toward his chest, smiling down at us as we played...
...pastels, vibrates with rays of pale yellow light in his signature staccato brushstroke. Flanking it are two other night scenes: the Rembrandt Workshop's The Holy Family at Night (1638-40), a large Dutch interior plunged in darkness, with a young mother sitting near a baby's cradle, reading aloud to an older woman by candlelight; and Van Gogh's 1885 The Potato Eaters, his first major figure painting, so dark that its five peasants, seated at a table beneath a gaslight, seem covered in coal dust. That palette of gray, black and bottle-green marked Van Gogh's somber...
...questions?), it is very telling that Stone and his producers were willing to accommodate so many stipulations. They seemed perfectly willing to act as useful propaganda tools for the Communist regime. At one point in “Comandante,” for example, Castro wonders aloud: “What is a dictator? Is it bad to be a dictator? The United States has been a great friend of dictators.” He then adds that he is merely “a dictator of myself...