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...book's name and cover caught my eye simultaneously. V.S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival was illustrated with a similarly titled painting by Giorgio de Chirico, the Greek-Italian pre-Surrealist. I pored over the book, which describes the Trinidadian Nobel laureate's own coming to terms with living in southern England, a few miles from where I had grown up. Enthused and enthralled, I decided I wanted the painting...
...world's assembly plant. As we walked its grid, we were greeted by a phantasmagoric palette of Rubens, Da Vinci and Van Gogh copies. Painting quietly in an alleyway, one young artist seemed to find us rather than vice versa. As Tamara translated, he cast an appreciative eye over a printout of De Chirico's Enigma, and promised a 2-sq.-ft. canvas reproduction, in a fortnight...
...started playing chess before he was 5. After his father died when he was 7, Kasparov's mother Clara--whose last name he took--shepherded his career. (She still does. When TIME interviewed Kasparov at their spacious, Soviet-era apartment in Moscow recently, it was Clara who kept an eye on the clock and reminded Kasparov of his next appointment.) As he grew up, Kasparov says, he became aware of the "political climate surrounding chess matches." Karpov was the "darling of the system ... Karpov was theirs. I was not." Old Soviet attitudes began to change when Mikhail Gorbachev became General...
...your cover image of Reagan shedding a tear: You got it wrong. Reagan would not be crying. Rather, with that twinkle in his eye, he would smile, slightly cock his head and urge us to try harder. He would not have us look to the past, as Tumulty surmised, but he would encourage us to take action to improve our situation, because "the best is yet to come!" Thomas Okada, LOS ANGELES...
...dedication to improving the quality of student experience at the College? Above all, what undergraduate students most want from Faust is an advocate and a pioneer. We want a president who understands the value of an undergraduate education and who will implement the new General Education with an eye to what will best serve students. We want a president who believes that faculty responsibilities extend beyond the realm of a research lab and into the realm of teaching and advising. We want a president who sees college not simply as an academic experience, and embraces and prioritizes its extracurricular...