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...Somalia even more broken than it already is. John Prendergast, a senior adviser at the International Crisis Group and an Africa specialist in the Clinton administration, says a conflict would likely end the transitional government?s chances of taking over in Mogadishu, severely damage the Islamists capacity to lead, flatten the city of Baidoa and leave Ethiopia with heavy casualties. ?The [Islamic] militias are highly motivated and disciplined and would rally around the slogan of protecting Somalia from foreign invaders,? says Prendergast. ?But the reaction from Ethiopia would be hellish and the Islamists know that...
...well as his own desire for self improvement. “Any student who thinks [an HES degree] is not legitimate is engaging in intellectual snobbery or elitism,” McAlmond says. He adds in an e-mail that the DEP “has the ability to flatten the education hierarchy to allow more students to benefit from a Harvard education.”THE GRAND EQUALIZERIn a rapidly developing technological world, more students may come to see the DEP as a viable educational option. Greenberg says this is the first year that he has been able...
...fund raising while Congress is in session. Instead of dropping by two fund raisers a night in Washington, lobbyists would have to wait until recesses, making it harder to convert last night's donation into tomorrow's amendment. By lightening schedules, a ban would improve lawmakers' lives but flatten the capital's vast catering and events economy. Still, quipped a Midwestern lawmaker, "it would be the best airline bailout we could ever pass," since more fund raisers would take place out of town. Chance of passage...
...also upon this conceptual turn: the photo is not really of the Emperor, but of his wax figure at Madame Tussaud's museum in London. Wax statues look almost laughably fake in person, but Sugimoto exploits the power (or perhaps the weakness) of the camera's single eye to flatten perspective and encourage illusion, thereby creating an image that looks more real, more human than the wax object he is photographing. In the next room are similar shots of King Henry VIII of England and his six wives. In Sugimoto's rendering, it is as if the royals had traveled...
...there was a recipe to the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s newest exhibit, it’d probably go something like this: Take an onion. Flatten it. Enlarge it a thousand times. Add every color and texture. Bake at 350º. Let cool for five to 40 years, then try to find the original layers of the onion again...