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...never been publicly displayed. In fact, although the Prado holds the world's largest trove of works by Goya, only a fifth of the pieces in this exhibition come from its collection. All were completed between 1794 and 1820, the period that begins with Goya's recovery from a grave illness that left him deaf, and traverses the bloody years of Spain's war of independence, which he witnessed personally...
...Yesterday, Harvard began another twinbill—this one against Cornell, the last place team in the Gehrig Division—by digging its season’s grave a few feet deeper, losing, 6-5,in heartbreaking fashion in the first game when Big Red junior Scott Hardinger smashed a walk-off triple in the bottom of the seventh inning. But the nightcap gave the Crimson its first glimmer of hope in a long time...
Most injuries are not as grave as that. The Ohio survey, which analyzed data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, included reports from 100 U.S. emergency rooms between 1990 and 2005. Five of every 1,000 children, ages 6 to 17 - about 27,000 children in all - who participated in some form of gymnastics sought medical care in the ER each year for a gymnastics-related injury. About 97% of the children were treated and released, mostly with sprains or strains - serious injuries, but not severe enough to require admittance to the hospital...
...dinner party being held in Shanghai in honor of the late Salvatore Ferragamo. Were he to have seen them, the "Shoemaker of Dreams," as he was known when he was crafting platforms and slippers for Hollywood icons like Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe would doubtless have spun in his grave, fast enough to power the lights of the Bund, Shanghai's luxury strip...
...could become a wider intra-Shi'ite war, drawing in the forces loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose ceasefire has been key to the success of the U.S. "surge"? If so, the consequences for American military strategy in Iraq in an all-important political year will be grave...