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...couple were among the 60-odd survivors of Beirut's once thriving European and American communities, which at their height numbered in the tens of thousands. The staunchest Western holdouts: the academic fraternity, which had made Beirut into the regional center of higher education. But the execution of three hostages--two British teachers and an American librarian --in retaliation for the U.S. bombing of Libya in April persuaded most of the few remaining Westerners to leave. Explains George Miller, a professor at American University of Beirut, who has lived in Lebanon for 40 years: "We stayed until there...
...weren't breaking any rules. Anything is a violation of the RRR [the Resolution on Rights and Responsiblities] if Harvard wants to make it that way," asserted Jaron R. Bourke '88, one of the blockaders. The resolution, passed by the Faculty during the height of the anti-war protests in 1970, is designed to protect personal liberties like freedom of speech and movement...
...first attempt at 5-ft., 9-in., Buchen stumbled on the approach. Sugrue followed, sailing easily over the standard. Buchen cleared the height on her second attempt, but trailed by one miss...
...storm in the shopping malls of the Midwest, South and Far West, these huge pinwheels of thick dough enfold gluey cinnamon, butter (or one of the more or less convincing substitutes) and enough sugar to create a sticky, candied mass. Measuring from two to five inches in both height and diameter and weighing in at about half a pound each, the buns suggest great spiraled coliseums of honeyed cardboard. Given the size and messiness of these concoctions, it is hard to imagine that an individual could consume a whole one at a sitting. Nonetheless, people do just that, either...
...pictorial illusions are too literal and their mystery drains away. Too often his work seems like a nostalgic recapitulation of Italian quattrocento sculpture, Desiderio da Settignano in particular. But of his power over the flat surface, there is no doubt. What we see there, in midcareer and at the height of his powers, is the greatest realist artist alive...