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Downtown Mogadishu is a tropical Stalingrad, a bullet-raked, mortar-pounded, artillery-shelled canvas of Roman arches and Italian colonnades that that testifies to man's capacity for creation and also for destruction. Not the sort of place, in other words, that you'd expect to find a $30 million...
Blake Mycoskie wanted to get away from it all. After founding and running four businesses and losing by a sliver on The Amazing Race, he escaped last January to Argentina, where he learned to sail, dance the tango and play competitive polo. He also visited impoverished villages where few, if...
Then Gates's party climbed on a slate-gray C17 flown by an Air Force reserve unit from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. C17s are the low-slung, fat-bellied high-performance cargo aircraft that move everything the U.S. government needs moved, from presidential limos to Humvees. Today...
First, Harvard plops its wards down to live for four years amongst the student body’s extraordinary miscegenation of peoples, places, and histories. Not really an accurate canvas of human diversity in any particular place except the Ivy League campus itself, the student body is more an unwieldy...
Monet also shared his Japanese predecessors' fascination with nature and informal scenes of everyday life: compare Monet's two girls at the beach in Les Cousines (1870), downstairs at the Marmottan, to Utagawa Toyokuni's Three Women on a Boat Lamparo Fishing (before 1825), upstairs. Monet's snowscapes, like those...