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Perhaps the greatest gift Japan gave Monet, and Impressionism, was an incandescent obsession with getting the play of light and shadow, the balance of colors and the curve of a line, just right - not the way it is in reality, but the way it looks in the artist's imagination. "I have slowly learned about the pattern of the grass, the trees, the structure of birds and other animals like insects and fish, so that when I am 80, I hope to be better," Hokusai wrote 16 years before his death at age 89. "At 90, I hope to have...
...going into the Ivy schedule, where Harvard is after its fourth Ivy title in six seasons. And if BC goes on to get an NCAA tournament berth and Harvard wins an Ivy League title, the Dec. 28th win over the Eagles could become the Crimson’s holiday gift that keeps on giving. —Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...
...Sadr intends do with Iraq if he ever does take over. But the Sunnis today will tell you they don't need to wait. On Saturday, they saw all the evidence they needed: the symbolism of executing Saddam on the Muslim High Holiday of Id al-Adha as a gift to the Shi'a, and and the decision of Maliki to get special approval from Iraq's senior Shi'a clerics, the "marja'iya," to carry out the execution on that...
...segment “Stephen goes to Harvard,” aired on Comedy Central on Dec. 20, Stephen Colbert presented the portrait as a gift to IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen...
...soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) have the most dangerous job in Afghanistan. The dark khaki camouflage uniform - a gift from the U.S. government - may as well be a beacon for Taliban attacks. Insurgents often target the ANA, knowing that the poorly prepared troops rarely drive armored vehicles and lack sufficient firepower to mount a counter-offensive. Several hundred ANA troops have died in combat since 2003, and a new Taliban directive has decreed that their alliance with foreign forces makes ANA soldiers infidels, and thus a legitimate target...