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...writing "fat and thin" characters, some bold and emphatic and others trailing to the faintest visual whisper, was peculiarly his own (at least among Japanese calligraphers) and difficult to emulate. His ability to work with space through writing struck his admirers as a marvel. Ernest Fenollosa, the great Boston connoisseur of Japanese art who did the most to introduce Koetsu to a Western audience at the end of the 19th century, went into raptures about it: "Such a unique feeling for spacing, placing and spotting has never elsewhere been exhibited in the world's art. Koetsu...
...January, the Kennedy School's Center for International Development hosted Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, who leads of one of the rebel factions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Widely derided in Congo as a puppet of foreign powers that have invaded the country to plunder its diamond wealth, Wamba dia Wamba's own subordinates have admitted that his soldiers have been involved in at least one very bloody massacre of civilians...
...million for the Ernest Gallo alcohol research center...
...There isn't an alcoholic around who doesn't wish he could drink moderately," says Dr. Ernest Noble, director of UCLA's Alcohol Research Center. He adds that similar attempts at moderation, such as Controlled Drinking, Drink Watchers and Rational Recovery, have a long history of failure. Dr. Nicholas Pace, co-founder of the Alcoholism Council of New York, agrees that such experiments are doomed because alcoholism, as abstinence advocates have drummed into the public's consciousness, is a disease. People who drink heavily over a long period of time permanently alter their livers, which means that they...
...partly a result of [American history] not being required or not being taught well," Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May said. "But most of these people had been exposed to this information and it didn't stick...