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...During World War I, Klee was spared from serving at the front, instead he painted camouflage on airplanes. But that didn't keep him from suffering the tragedies of war: his good friends and colleagues Franz Marc and August Macke died in combat. These experiences are reflected in Klee's work, although it's not always obvious at first glance. The abstract drawing After a Drawing From the Year 1919, for example, reduces an air attack on a boat to bare lines and geometrical shapes. In Klee's depictions of aerial battles, war planes look like birds, and often...
...that lost credibility, without which no professional sport can thrive, the NBA surprised everyone by going way outside the sports world to tap Johnson, who commanded the Army Corps of Engineer's reconstruction efforts in Iraq from 2003 to '04. Johnson, who spent the past 32 years as a combat engineer, has no experience in sports administration and has refereed only the occasional youth game. When asked for his reaction to Johnson's hiring, Hue Hollins, a 27-year NBA official who retired in 2003, says, "I passed out. You'd think you'd hire someone who knows something about...
...future of Harvard’s sustainability work, then Gore could not be more right. The event, which electrified the Harvard student body with a fervor usually reserved for consulting info sessions, served as a testament to the will that exists on this campus to use this moment to combat the pressing environmental challenges that face the world, and offered a sharp rebuke to those who argue that ours is a generation defined by apathy...
Officials from 43 Asian and European nations gathered in Beijing Friday to discuss how to combat the global financial crisis. But even as the talks got underway, the markets were having their say, and it wasn't pretty. From Tokyo to Mumbai, markets plummeted again, a trend that was repeated when European markets opened a few hours later...
...interview Wednesday, Connolly said that tobacco remained a major public health problem in the United States and that more legislation is needed to combat its effects...