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...good, it must also be necessary, and it must be won; there is small solace in a glorious defeat. So while America presses ahead toward a vision of a new Iraq arising out of all that darkness, we're not even sure if the war has ended yet or when it will and whether we'll even recognize victory if we see it. Some have argued that Iraq's national pride and hope of moving forward depends on doing this themselves, on not having it done for them. We may want to give this great gift of freedom...
...while the vision sounds glorious for all that it contains, careful consideration of what it will necessarily sacrifice can mean only one thing: the end of Harvard athletics as even a semi-relevant segment of campus life...
Jones explores Henry's life from every possible angle, restlessly following minor characters through love stories, comedies and epic quests, skipping across decades of time and continents of space--The Known World is a glorious, enthralling, tangled root ball of a book--but always returning to the story's tragic core. Slowly, terrifyingly, it dawns on us that although Henry has his free papers, he's the product of an evil world, and his soul will never be free. When it was published last summer, Jones' book seemed like a very mature first novel. With the benefit of eight months...
...will be talking about Christ's Passion. In the U.S. alone, tens of millions will attend church and participate in services that relive the death and Resurrection of the Messiah. For a certain sector of the public, the seasonal spirit has been further enhanced by the publication of The Glorious Appearing, the 12th book in the best-selling Left Behind series, in which Jesus returns in apocalyptic judgment...
...member of one of the strictest flagellant confraternities in Florence for years before he married. "Filippino worked for both followers and enemies of Savonarola," says the curator. Filippino's works for Savonarola's followers were severe, whereas those for the preacher's enemies - such as his glorious frescoes in Florence's Strozzi Chapel - are filled with charming detail. In the final section, titled Pathos, Botticelli's superb Pietà from Milan is joined by Filippino's Repentant Mary Magdalene, which usually resides in a Park Avenue apartment in New York City. Although respectful of the Botticelli, Nelson feels that Filippino...