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...DIED. Frank Snowden Jr., 95, Howard University classicist and pioneer in the field of blacks in antiquity; in Washington. He developed a passion for the field at the Boston Latin School and Harvard and went on to write books, including Before Color Prejudice, showing that ancient Greece was comparatively free of the violent racism that plagued later Western nations. One of the explanations he offered was that Greeks and Romans first encountered blacks as soldiers and mercenaries, not as slaves...
...Commodore Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama, the decision to remove the government of Laisenia Qarase in a coup on Dec. 5 was painful but simple. "The racist policies of the past," he says, sipping coffee in his office at the Republic of Fiji Military Force Strategic HQ in Suva, "would have taken us to hell-and we would never have come back." For many observers in the outside world, most vocally Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Bainimarama's actions were an unacceptable interference in the democratic process, but the armed forces chief and now interim Prime Minister is unrepentant. "If you want...
...Jason Hartford grabbed a rebound off a three-point miss and put it home for the victory with 2.4 seconds left. “It was probably one of the most bizarre endings of any game I’ve seen,” Harvard coach Frank Sullivan said of last year’s game at Cornell. “The players after the game [this season] were saying that the basketball gods paid us back for that one,” Sullivan added. “On that last play, Drew [Housman] actually passed a ball through...
...Goffredo and Darcy] have both been workman-like players their entire career,” Crimson coach Frank Sullivan said. “You can probably pick on two hands the number of times they have missed practice. They have been very resilient all the time. Very workman like, very resilient, excellent practice players. Two guys who at their core are rank-and-file guys, [who] will do what is good for the good of the order and will do that every day to the best of [their] ability...
...canvas dripping color like a pair of wet blue jeans, has a classic simplicity that suggests Mark Rothko or even Henri Matisse. For years, critics have been mentioning Majerus in the same sentence as contemporary giants like Ellsworth Kelly, Claes Oldenburg, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol - if only because he stole shamelessly from them. Majerus "quotes, spits out and recycles modernism," enthuses Mudam director Marie-Claude Beaud. "His painting seems to be cultivated, sensitive and trashy all at the same time...