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...Imagine my disappointment. I had found the new 'It' pen: the Rebecca Moss Sport Pen. She gushed with ink as liberally as my trusty fine-tipped Pilot Precise V7 Rolling Ball, but Rebecca offered me something new-an upgrade in styling, heft and refillability. She had everything I wanted. The pen came packaged in a space-age pod container with sound-proofing foam to cradle the instrument. Inside: a pen with an elegant, athletic look. A masterpiece of German engineering, the pen's blue plastic housing had a smooth sandpaper tactility. I thought I had found love at first write...
...tone of Knowles' letter was predominantly upbeat. With the $965 million goal for FAS' portion of the University's five-year Capital Campaign more than 90 percent met, Knowles spent less ink on the dire financial straits of FAS than in past years...
Thirty-one years ago, John R. Stilgoe, Orchard professor in the history of landscape development, made a Valentine's gift from a nine-inch by nine-inch linoleum tile. He carved a heart in the ink-absorbing material and made a block print on quality paper stock. Stilgoe advises, "A Valentine shouldn't necessarily be store-bought. A handmade gift is good because it shows a really strong sense of devotion of time and effort." Flowers or chocolates, he warns, can be dangerous, especially if you don't know what your sweetheart likes. "That level of risk...
...here, swallowing her coals. Charming nymphs and satyrs, Psyche and Cupid, and Juno and Bacchus are portrayed next to angels, the Virgin, and Adam and Eve. But there are also some peasants, shepherds, portraits of anonymous females and beautiful studies of hands and nudes. With a little chalk and ink, the artists examined everything from the silly to the sacred...
Europe hasn't reached this point quickly. Last January, when the Lewinsky story broke, I was at home in London for semester break. The European media amused itself then with voyeuristic people-watching. It devoted more ink and more air time to ridiculing the naive and puritanical fascination of Americans with the President's dalliance than with the details of what he did. After all, European leaders have been doing much the same thing for centuries...