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...Murphy had just praised his quarterback up and down. Maybe it was the fact that we’d all just seen O’Hagan scramble for big yards to lead Harvard downfield. Maybe it’s that with his helmet off and his uniform caked with dirt and soaked with sweat, O’Hagan bears more than a passing resemblance to his predecessor...
We’ve tried to dig the dirt, but our nails are still clean. If Judge Roberts abides by what he proclaims to be his beliefs, partisanship ought to remain on the sidelines, and a large bipartisan vote in his favor should commence...
Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a collector with a limited range and a deep, if enigmatically motivated, passion. What he saves is family memorabilia--his grandma's false teeth, a dollar bill, even dirt from ground that is somehow hallowed in family memory. All this stuff he seals in plastic Baggies and pins to a wall in his room. One of his most prized possessions is a photograph of his grandfather with a Ukrainian woman who, according to family legend, saved his life during World War II. In Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan journeys to the Ukraine to discover her fate...
...lunettes was put there by Michelangelo himself, in a dark wash of black pigment in glue size, brushed on after the fresco was dry to give more density to the figures and atmosphere to the space. They think this wash is being "indiscriminately" swabbed off along with the dirt. Beck claims that Colalucci and his team, who have done nothing but study the Sistine for the past eight years, have still not studied it enough; and that the cleaning agent, AB-57, though used for cleaning fresco and stone since the early 1970s, is still insufficiently tested. The antis also...
...summer afternoon in Chicago, Margaret Garner, CEO of the Chicago construction firm Broadway Consolidated, took a ride to Chicago's poverty-stressed 37th Ward. Dressed immaculately in a multicolored blouse, black pants and red steel-toe work boots, she had an appointment with a field of dirt and dreams. Garner surveyed the 11-acre site, where an old factory had recently been demolished, and proclaimed the future: "This will be Wal-Mart No. 5,402. But I can guarantee you, it won't be anything like Wal-Mart...