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...grids to colored images of shaving cream, Bochner’s work is essentially discursive and involves a response or conversation with certain ideological and visual contradictions. In what seems like a cold, bloodless and scientific artistic expression, there is actually an underlying and fundamental exuberance—a fervent obsession with ideas and a perpetual fixation on objectivity...
...would it begin? In one grim scenario, it would start with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, who is in the most exposed position of all. His controlled media have long been replete with fervent anti-Israeli propaganda in a deliberate attempt to deflect attention from corruption and mismanagement at home. Endless television replays of the most brutal scenes of the Israeli occupation have hammered home the message that Egypt's most urgent concern is the plight of the Palestinians. At the same time, what is still a military-based regime justifies large expenditures on the armed forces amid extreme poverty...
Monro became a fervent supporter of black education during his first years at Harvard and slowly came to believe that top-tier schools were reluctant to offer the kind of education that most underprivileged students needed...
Converts can sometimes make the most fervent converters. Asked how important sharing his faith with non-believers is, Maskiell is blunt. “It’s life or death. It’s that simple,” he says. “Jesus said, ‘I am the way of the truth and the light. No man comes through the father but through me.’ And if you don’t have Jesus in your life, you will not live eternally with God. It’s that simple...
...NCAA tournament. Davis grew up in crushing poverty in Alabama and had careers in football and basketball before he started coaching. An African American in a state with a history pockmarked by racism and a stutterer who struggles through press conferences, Davis has received ugly e-mail from fervent Hoosier fans and fielded what he obliquely refers to as "the craziest questions" on his radio show. But those questions were drowned out by the roaring crowds, who saw Indiana go on to beat Kent State 81-69 on Saturday, thus making it to the Final Four for the first time...