Word: haloed
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Person of the Week INTEREST WANES The traders who once polished his halo vented their discontent last week when U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan trimmed interest rates for the seventh time this year. Stocks plummeted the day of the cut, viewed as too little, too late to help the U.S. economy...
...Would the school close down? After each answer, interpreters shouted her ASL into speech for the hard-of-hearing who did not sign; others pressed her words tactilely into the hands of the deaf and blind. At one dorm the oversize crowd spilled outside, and Fernandes signed in the halo of a sidewalk light, her audience spread out into the darkness. She went...
...Xbox match GameCube for visuals? You bet. If anything, it's even more cinematically realistic and detail obsessed. Just take a walk through the space station in Halo, an action game based on Larry Niven's classic sci-fi novel Ringworld, and you'll notice fingerprint marks on triple-glazed windows. Or check out Oddworld, one of the laugh-out-loud funniest video games in a long time. The scaly textured reflective skin on the alien heroes, Abe and Munch, is easily up to Jurassic Park standards...
...through so many centuries. Sometimes Adam rises from his tomb on the bottom spar, and in one mid 1400s Italian work it's Mary Magdalen at his feet. Another striking theme is to show the crucified Christ on one side of the cross, and Christ-in-Glory (complete with halo and benevolent-yet-judging expression) on the reverse-a visual crash course in basic theology...
...halo muddied...