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...Harriet Barovick...
...repeating images: the train, the barn house, the American flag, Lincoln and Washington. Fading wooden dolls of soldiers and presidents fail to inspire, as do depictions of biblical stories in quilt form. To be valid Americana, the MFA must pull the exhibit out of its lily-white Northeastern provincialism. Harriet Powers, born a slave in Athens, Georgia, becomes the panacea. Her quilt depicts biblical scenes, natural events, and features tales of farming life. While the MFA calls the quilt extraordinary, the quilt appears to vary little from the others in the exhibit...
...consumer who consumed this product has representation with an attorney and we will not comment," said Harriet Tolby of Coca-Cola...
...begun. It's our customary line of discussion: Does a family, or a network of friends, prevent this kind of senseless violence? Are kids like Williams born with the propensity to kill, or does our society breed it into them? We're pretty sure that even an Ozzie and Harriet home life wouldn't have saved Williams from himself, but there will be endless speculation anyway, as the country tries to pin down the root of Williams' rage...
...huge: the $3.5 billion in annual textbook sales is greater than the sales of all hardcover books to adults. Textbooks are superficial in part because they must conform to state standards, which are often encyclopedic in scope. But "the weakest link in the chain," according to education researcher Harriet Tyson, is "textbook evaluation." Most committee members have little time to examine texts thoroughly, frequently making decisions based on splashy graphics and frills like CD-ROMs...