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...began to apply his peculiar blend of Islamic fundamentalism, Arab nationalism and desert-bred xeno phobia to his country. He closed down U.S. and British military bases, expelled 25,000 descendants of Italian colonials, nationalized foreign banks and decreed that all signs and documents be written in Arabic. A devout Muslim, he banned liquor imports and imposed the Sharia (Islamic law), which can, for example, punish a thief by amputation of a hand. In 1970 Gaddafi's Libya became the first Arab oil-exporting country to demand substantially higher prices for crude. Around the same time, Gaddafi struck...
...Vicksburg. He probably living in an old tumble-down mansion that he had farmed scientifically in his youth. He was an excellent marksman, though he only killed what was necessary. His study was full of timeless books. He had seen the horrors of the twentieth century and yet remained devout. His hand was firm and when he slowly walked through the chemical smells of Savannah, he still took careful note of everything. Life for him was a matter of honor...
...many with their faces painted a ghostly white, marched through the broad streets ten to 15 abreast. They carried signs reading ROCKETS OUT and PEACE WITHOUT WEAPONS. In the same city, just 24 hours earlier, West German Defense Minister Hans Apel was jeered into silence by a congress of devout Lutheran evangelicals, as he tried to explain his government's nuclear defense stand...
...this devout and extensive work of disentanglement, the main credit must go to the show's organizer, Stanford Art Historian Albert E. Elsen, the dean of Rodin scholars; but it is also the work of a formidable team of French and American art historians who contributed essays to the catalogue, including Ruth Butler (on Rodin's context as a working artist in the 19th century salons) and Kirk Varnedoe (on Rodin's drawings and the role of photography in his work). For Elsen, this show is the summa of 20 years' engagement with its subject...
...Devout Classrooms