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The ease of working in oil also invited painters to experiment with rapid, summary brushwork, often to produce passages of sketchy, indeterminate form. This was the technique that Tintoretto above all made his own. Thirty years younger than Titian, the son of a dyer - hence the name - Tintoretto was the...
'This is not just the flogging of the girl; it is an indication of what is in store for us.' ASMA JAHANGIR, head of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, on the beating of a teenage girl for "immoral behavior" in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley
Media critics have increasingly pointed to Harvard Business School—the alma mater of former Merrill Lynch chief executive John A. Thain, recently ousted General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner, and Bush administration Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox—as the source of the irresponsible activity that...
As the man in charge of Church orthodoxy, Levada will take over the reins of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, which has for nearly two decades been responsible for dealing with the Lefebvre followers. The Cardinal says the process will benefit from his congregation's body of some 30 theological...
Nepal's palace massacre in 2001 - when crown prince Dipendra allegedly gunned down 10 members of his own family, including his father, King Birendra Shah, before shooting himself - has for the most part receded into memory in this impoverished Himalayan nation. Since then, a Maoist rebellion found its way into...