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...fight over a wager placed on a tennis match. Badly wounded, facing a murder charge and a sentence of death, he fled Rome, the scene of his early triumphs as a painter. After a four-year struggle to return, he died, possibly of typhus, on a Tuscan beach. Although the papal pardon he sought for years was finally granted, he did not live to learn the news. All through that complicated exile, while circling among Naples, Malta and Sicily, Caravaggio managed to sustain and even deepen his intuitions about light, shadow and pictorial drama. The evidence is in every room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark Master | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...California's famously tough Governor has been locked in a furious feud with the state's R.N.s over his decision to suspend new state rules that would limit the number of patients a nurse must care for. The tiff took off at a statewide women's conference in Long Beach last December, when the Governor ridiculed a group of nurses who were there to protest. To be sure, the R.N.s were provocative, unfurling a banner that read HANDS OFF OUR RATIOS--a not-so-subtle reference to allegations of female groping by Schwarzenegger that had dogged his gubernatorial campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nursing a Grudge | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

Graham addressed the limitations of reading from her book, a collection of poems mainly located on Omaha Beach, the site of Operation Overlord, beginning the so-called liberation of Europe by Allied forces during World War II. First issuing a disclaimer to audience members to not read along, as she tended to make mistakes, Graham also confessed that these words were not meant to be read from a podium. She had not even intended for them to become poems...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Prof Prays Through Poetry | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Hometown: Manhattan Beach...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scoped: Leap Year Baby, Jessica L. Jones '06 | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

Although this song is pretty vanilla and boring, the road trip-themed video is the cutting edge. At one point, Jesse, who may or may not be related to his dad Paul, gets his car towed by a fat person on a tractor, who takes him to a beach where there is a party with girls (Jesse holds hands with them). Sometimes he wears sunglasses but sometimes, he has blonde hair. He is a gorgeous child...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Total' Eclipse of the Heart | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

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