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Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden and Judith's defeat of the Assyrian army may not have much in common. But in Divine Mirrors: The Madonna Unveiled, curated by Melissa Katz at the Davis Museum at Wellesley, they do. The exhibit combines works of art on these subjects with a text rich in Biblical reference and historical detail to show changing perceptions of the Virgin Mary in different cultures over the past nine centuries...
Last Sunday, the men's volleyball team suffered its most heartbreaking loss of the season when it squandered a 9-1 lead in the second game and fell to Princeton in the finals of the Ivy League Championship. Harvard experienced the proverbial "agony of defeat...
...although my own "off-off-Broadway" production of a crucial, big game mistake won't rank with the devastation of the Webbers or Buckners of the world, I can attest to the bitter and acrid taste of that oft-bandied expression "agony of defeat...
Rebuking China's human rights record may have become an essential part of selling a China trade deal on Capitol Hill, but that doesn't mean Beijing has to play ball. The U.S. suffered an embarrassing defeat in the U.N. Human Rights Commission Wednesday, when the international body voted in support of Beijing to table Washington's resolution condemning Chinese abuses. Despite a U.S. lobbying campaign that began in January - and included a rare personal appearance by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright before the commission in Geneva - Beijing's motion was supported by 22 countries and opposed by only...
...caught in an Elian quagmire of their own making and are proving to have more bark than bite. "I think the intimidation cycle has been broken in this town," says Elena Freyre, a Cuban exile and Miami director of the moderate Cuban Committee for Democracy. "Elian may mean the defeat of the traditional exile line...