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...Gogh wrote to his brother Theo. "It needs the whole and entire force and concentration of a single individual." The flora he described was sunflowers, and Van Gogh is the one artist who did those blossoms justice. In Sunflowers for Van Gogh (Rizzoli; 149 pages; $25), Photographer David Douglas Duncan captures the luminous, strangely feminine character of his subjects. This glowing tribute to painter and plant offers what seem to be studies of leafy blonds singing in the daylight, mourning in the shadows and brightening the earth when there is scarcely any light source, in Van Gogh's words, "with...
...Duke Student Government. "But it shows that perhaps, perhaps, he has some sliver of rationality after all." Other students don't give Nifong that much credit. "It's ridiculous that he's trying to get out of it now, and it makes him look that much worse," sophomore Duncan Kirby says. "He ruined a couple of really good kids' lives. He should've stopped this a long time ago, but he didn...
Huckabee is not the only Republican long shot who senses an opening. With each week, it seems the potential field of conservatives is growing. Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson has already formed an exploratory committee; California Congressman Duncan Hunter and former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore are expected to soon. Also being talked about as possible candidates are South Dakota Senator John Thune and a raft of current and former Governors that includes Minnesota's Tim Pawlenty, Oklahoma's Frank Keating and Colorado's Bill Owens. But the one whom many conservatives are pining for--Florida's outgoing Governor, Jeb Bush...
British born, based in New York City, with no classical training, Duncan Quinn is a new breed of tailor. His Savile Row--inspired style inarguably leans toward the Brit-rocker persuasion?these definitely aren't the proper suits a barrister would wear to the office. But there's something incredibly chic about Quinn's look, especially out of an English context, when worn in the good old U.S.A. With stores in New York City and Los Angeles already under his belt, Quinn is digging deeper into the heart of the country, with a new location opening next month in Dallas...
...good thing to viewing people as corpulent or obese, which is a bad thing,” Shapin said. Fat studies has emerged as a small but growing interdisciplinary field in universities across the country, The New York Times reported last month. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, professor Margaret Carlisle Duncan, for example, offers a class on “The Social Construction of Obesity.” And Sondra Solovay, an adjunct faculty member at the New College of California School of Law who authored “Tipping the Scales of Justice,” discusses weight discrimination...