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...particularly the foil events have more than made up for any shortcomings. Senior épée fencer Maria Larsson has come on of late, going 5-1 on the day, a pace matched by foil fencer Cross. Cross and teammates freshman Shelby MacLeod, junior Anna Podolsky, and junior co-captain Arielle Pensler—who fenced for the first time this season, returning from injury—posted a 9-0 drubbing of a solid St. John’s team and a big 5-4 win over a strong Buckeye squad. “I felt stronger...
...then there's Anna...
...former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to found an opposition movement called the Independent Democratic Party of Russia. In partnership with Gorbachev, he also bought a large shareholding in independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which is often critical of the Russian government. Association with the daily is not for the fainthearted. Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Gazeta until her murder in 2006; earlier this month, a young freelance contributor called Anastasia Baburova was shot dead...
...Markelov was the head of the Rule of Law Institute, a human-rights group, and had made many enemies over his career - from Chechen warlords and the Russian military to neo-fascists and nationalist organizations. He had worked closely with Novaya Gazeta investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya before she was murdered in 2006 and had recently begun to look into the circumstances behind the November attack on journalist Mikhail Beketov, a beating that left Beketov in a coma for two weeks and resulted in the amputation of a leg and some fingers...
...that would be his trademark for the rest of his career. His landscapes are more astringent and cooler. His portraits too. The people in those portraits are known to him. Most of them are family, like his son Jamie, who also became an artist, or neighbors like Karl and Anna Kuerner, a German-American couple he painted many times in Chadds Ford, and Christina Olson, the crippled woman in Christina's World whom he knew from around his summer home in Cushing, Maine. But though these people are his familiars, they look to us enclosed, subdued, even solemn, always keeping...