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...Just as Olivier Messiaen's time in a Nazi prison camp forced the French composer to experiment with novel orchestrations, Htein Lin's years in prison gave him a technique uniquely adapted to privation. Even after his release, he has continued to paint in the primitive, almost childlike style he developed in jail. "He has this need to fill his canvases with as much as he can," Weber says, "because he may not have another chance." In a recent painting of his adopted home, for instance, Htein Lin depicts London as a chaotic welter of traffic and pedestrians. Every inch...
...Paris, '60s Pop Art or Zen. As in his couture collections, Lacroix intentionally mismatches fabrics and textures - think orange leather sofas, chocolate brown canvas walls, sequined drapes and lots of feathers. And when guests lie on their beds, they look up at ceilings fitted with gemmed headdresses, 18th century French prints and mirrors...
...addition to chemistry and biology tests—which were offered online last year—the College is aiming to include exams for Expository Writing, mathematics, and French by next summer at the latest, McCarty said...
...name of charity—as the Harvard College Women’s Center held its “Naked Ladies Brunch,” the fourth since 2006. In addition to a spread of English muffins and crème brûlée French toast, hundreds of articles of clothing were up for exchange at the transformed Women’s Center, which was styled to mimic the feel of a trendy thrift store. There were plenty of semi-naked ladies trying on clothing in the makeshift dressing room. As a part of the event, women bring...
...hailed as a model for modern Asia into an economic disaster zone. So paranoid are members of the junta about any outside influence that in recent years they have severely curtailed movements by foreign aid groups, forcing several organizations, including the International Committee for the Red Cross and the French arm of Doctors Without Borders, to abandon their field offices. While some NGOs reported that their foreign workers were being granted special visas by the military to help with reconstruction efforts, the previous NGO blackout means that little infrastructure exists to help get supplies to the needy quickly...