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...Miller is part of a surge in new-member enrollment, adding to the ranks of some 60 million visitors to online dating sites each month. Dating colossus Match.com, which charges users $35 a month, reported its largest monthly membership growth in seven years in November, while Perfectmatch.com reported a 47% jump in membership over the past quarter...
...Felicity, then up at Frederick again. She could tell it was too late.“I will not abandon you in your time of sin,” she told Frederick huskily, and lay down next to Felicity.Frederick stood above them, his legs spread wide like a colossus, and began to unbuckle his trousers. He heard the drumbeat of anticipation in his ears. Too late, he realized what the drumbeat was: the sound of hoofbeats.“Onward Zalathal!” cried The Stable Boy, barefoot and shirtless, as he and the stallion burst through the French...
...Friday, U.S. unemployment hit a 14-year high and yet plenty of stocks rallied, with the Dow Industrials ending up nearly 250 points. On Monday, news of China's $586 billion stimulus package, a colossus of a program tha t should bolster the global economy, was washed away amid more company-specific concerns like the fate of G.M. It almost feels as though investors are once again paying attention to the underlying value of individual stocks, and aren't simply being swayed by broader economic news: bailouts, oil prices, hedge-fund liquidation, data pointing to recession...
...most in the academic art world seem resigned to The Colossus being an inferior work by a Goya imitator. Not just the initials buttress that judgment, but also the coarse depiction of the giant's musculature, the less-than-careful rendition of the surrounding landscape, and the unnatural way in which a soldier is falling from his galloping horse. Symmons still isn't convinced. "Goya did create a number of highly unorthodox works in maturity," she says, "and these works do not always correspond to the way some scholars like to regard him - as a more decorous and orthodox artist...
...there is a lesson in the long controversy over The Colossus, says Mena, it's this: "There comes a point when you realize that adoration of art or artists is not good for the pursuit of knowledge. Those two initials on The Colossus have helped us understand better who Goya is and what his work means. That's what's important. You have to keep moving forward with new eyes, without prejudice. Then...