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...five years later, soon after he fled Rome. Both focus on the moment of Christ's appearance before two astonished disciples on the day of his resurrection. The London Supper is a work of high theater, produced by a man in full use of the blazing devices at his command. The beardless, youthful-looking Jesus, dressed in red and white robes, thrusts his right hand forward in a gesture that seems to burst through into our own space. One of the apostles does the same as he spreads his arms out in astonishment, realizing that he sits with the risen...
...Faculty are much less willing to hop to the command of the president, but it’s not clear that the Faculty have much ability to dislodge a president,” Labaree said...
...talk with the government. A tougher job may be to convince the leaders of political parties about to assume power--many of whom were brutalized by Baathists now coordinating the insurgency--that it's in their interests to reach a peaceful settlement with their former tormentors. In the U.S. command, there is increasing skepticism that the insurgency can be defeated through military might alone. Says a senior U.S. officer: "The Iraqis are the solution to the insurgency, and they are the solution to our departure...
...They don't get hungry. They're not afraid. They don't forget their orders. They don't care if the guy next to them has just been shot." GORDON JOHNSON, director of the robotics program for the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command, on battlefield robots currently being developed by the U.S. military...
Winn-Dixie is a stray who also happens to be perfectly trained to sit, smile, whimper, and howl in harmony to church hymns on command. With the clichéd carefree curiosity of a dog, he proceeds to win the hearts of the townspeople and mend their relationships...