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...World War II but then decided to return to his country to join the Resistance. He participated in a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler, and was caught, jailed and hanged. Bonhoeffer addressed this question of knowing with the example of a rose. He said that science allows us to grasp nearly everything about the composition of a rose because we have learned so much about pollination, photosynthesis and so forth. And yet, he said, once we have done all that analysis, we still ask, What is a rose...
...models help viewers grasp the volume and depth of the house’s spaces, while various black and white photographs offer contemporary documentation of the house. These photographs were taken by a range of photographers, from Adelard Legare, the Fisher’s Island Army Photographer, to Harold H. Costain, a photographer for Town and Country. The contrast between the stark, geometrical lines of the house and its surrounding organic landscape made for stunning photographs, a fact that the prominent architectural photographer G.E. Kidden Smith immediately noticed. At the end of the exhibit, a compilation of Brown home videos...
Three years later, Osama bin Laden has done more to change the situation for women in Afghanistan than any hundreds of thousands of blue fabric squares. With America’s war on terror in Afghanistan and its defeat of the Taliban regime, the world must grasp this unique opportunity to dramatically ameliorate conditions for Afghani women...
...famous. She has a gorgeous, luscious rear that attracts, as she says, mostly black men and Hispanics. All she wants, really, is a nice Jewish boy. But boys be damned. Jenn is on the track to the big time. Her pop culture references, her allusions to style, her grasp of what’s hot, what’s hip and what is totally passé, is honed to the sharpest perception. For advice on men and clothes, people flock to Jenn like pilgrims to Mecca. But, her style is so accented by a clear intelligence, that questions about Louis...
Easily the most intelligent man in the Crimson, Robin’s grasp of content, design and the ever-elusive HTML goes beyond the call of human duty. Our impeccable creative director for a year under the reign of JYS, Robin still pitched in to make pub crawls, send spreads and consult on duotone while his gorgeous girlfriend crafted the mag. Meanwhile, he made The Crimson run smoothly due to his unmatched judgement and intellect...