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...paneling to its original sheen, while the Hall of the Muses, a former Habsburg ballroom, has breathtaking newly restored sculptures of Apollo and the Nine Muses. Some of Europe's most acclaimed architects and designers took part in the Albertina reconstruction. To use the palace's original main entrance atop the bastion, 11 m above street level, Austrian Hans Hollein's design incorporated an elevator and escalator to carry an expected 500,000 visitors annually to the top, and a huge titanium wing-shaped roof projecting from behind the famous equestrian statue of Archduke Albrecht out over the street below...
With the Crimson locked in a three-way tie atop the Red Rolfe standings, its most recent win may provide much-needed confidence entering the season’s first divisional series. Harvard hosts Yale in a four-game set beginning Friday...
...irrespective of their faith, was Sargent’s symbolism of the synagogue as a blind old woman—a reference to the medieval convention signifying the failure of Judaism to see the truth of Christianity. By contrast, Sargent portrayed the church as wide-eyed and demurely poised atop a throne-like seat...
...resistance comes a few minutes later. The convoy stops south of Afak, the first big town, fearing that a local bridge may not support the tanks. Men are seen running through a field and a date-palm grove, north of the road. A machine gunner atop a tank starts shooting, and suddenly the air is ripped by bullets. The copters dance over the field, firing down. McCoy bounds into the palm grove, lobs a grenade over a small berm and opens fire on a group of men. When the shooting stops, Marines spread through Afak while human exploitation teams...
...Atop a hundred-foot ridge, paramilitary infantry and medium artillery had occupied a series of apartment complexes, from where they directed heavy fire on the advancing infantry. The U.S. troops immediately went to ground and called for help...