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...moral men do immoral things), and he has been a responsible and careful President. If he is out of control in one quarter, he is steady as a rock in the other. The hard part comes when one imagines Mrs. Clinton's knight, alone and in full and useless armor, looking out over the endless hills for nothing...
...think of Renaissance portraiture as straightforward: here's Duke X, the man to the life, speaking through his realistic effigy; that's the armor he wore when he did the Turk in--and so forth. Lotto's portraits tend to be more complicated than that. Take, for instance, his magnificently assured portrait of Andrea Odoni, 1527. Odoni, a rich Venetian, collected Greco-Roman antiquities, and the clue to this painting is the statuette he shows in his hand--an image of Artemis, goddess of the Ephesians, denounced by St. Paul. But his other hand clasps a crucifix to his breast...
MOST GO WITH MERCS Classy and armor-plated on demand, Mercedes is the car of choice for more than 40 heads of state and government. Top riders...
Three weeks ago, it seemed as if Janet Reno may actually have found a chink in Microsoft's armor. The attorney general filed suit against the software behemoth, claiming they were bullying computer manufacturers into accepting Internet Explorer as part of the Windows 95 bundle ? in violation of a 1996 court order. But now the empire ? through its legal minions ? has struck back...
...goal, clad in armor that included hip pads, shin guards, kickers--field hockey goalie boots--and a pelvic guard, (for crotch shots teammates nicknamed "flying birth control") Mayer became a defensive machine as passionate about the sport as she was skilled at perfecting it. Although she played basketball and track in the off-season, Mayer's sights increasingly concentrated on field hockey...