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...more memorable works, titled “From the Sources,” Weil paints a pair of hands holding a paint brush. The range of oranges in this canvas alone is impressive: While the background is painted loosely in a happy mango orange, the shade gradually merges into the russet-orange of the hands, and finally to a lemony yellow evoking the images of autumn leaves. While much of the paint is loosely layered, a thin layer of pastel blues and khaki greens can be identified underneath the intense oranges. These blues and greens are made visible through...
...Yasser Arafat, of course, may take a different message from Tuesday's events. In the Clinton years, the Palestinian leader perfected the art of starting brush fires when negotiations weren't going his way in order to bring the U.S. fire brigade running. Even now, his strategy has been to allow and encourage Palestinian militants to fire rifles and mortars at Israelis, hoping to provoke them into heavy-handed responses that affect Palestinian civilians and draw international condemnation. Arafat may even interpret the Israeli withdrawal after a condemnation by Washington on Tuesday as vindication of that strategy...
Harte’s closest brush with a world-class runner came while waiting for a portable toilet with three-time Boston Marathon winner Moses Tanui, a Keynan...
...polite brush-off that will probably come to sound very familiar over the next month or two, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said Bush's budget "requested adequate resources to fund necessary IRS improvements," adding that Bush's $9.4 billion was a 7 percent increase over the year before. (Which is a lot more than, say, the EPA is getting...
...McCain and Feingold, who brush aside such alarms, it was a moment for celebration, and not only because they were poised to win a lonely battle they had fought for years. The two weeks of debate that ended Friday surprised many veterans of the Senate's joyless forced marches. The debate was both civil and principled; people listened, and some even changed their mind, persuaded by new arguments and old loyalties to make a leap of faith. No one knew as the week went on how it would turn out; every day brought another threat to the bill's survival...