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This artistic technique served the additional function of allowing the artist to evade the Islamic prohibition against the artistic representation of humans and animals. Also on display is an early translation of the Qu’ran into Latin...
...crime was a DVD-hoarding, alleged drug user. Factor in an illustrious drag theater group, a parade of Hollywood celebrities, and a year of corporate misdoing, all at Harvard, and you had yourself a story. That it didn’t make bigger headlines was probably only the function of the lack of follow-up news available...
Almost immediately after the two split, Mitchell met Barzee at a church function and moved in with her and her three children. In this third family circle, Mitchell's behavior grew increasingly bizarre. He spoke often of visitations by angels and cornered his stepchildren with impromptu sermons. Last week in a series of television interviews, Barzee's daughter Louree Gaylor alleged that Mitchell was "always hugging me the wrong way." Once Gaylor moved out, the couple claimed to have received a divine direction to sell off all their belongings. At one point, Mitchell and Barzee were both excommunicated...
Harvard was the last eastern team to win the national championship, taking the crown in 1999. Stone said that the favorite was more a function of geography than anything else...
...Solitary confinement adds nothing to rehabilitation. It handicaps the ability of a person to function socially,” said Felix D. Arroyo, a Boston city councillor who spoke at the event...