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Etchings by James Whistler, Edward Hopper, Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns, as well as other less well-known artists, are currently on display at the Fogg Museum in the special exhibition "Etching and Etchers Since 1850." The show highlights etchings done since etching became a rare artistic medium--that is, since...

Author: By Alexandra Marolachakis, | Title: FOGG CARVES OUT NICHE FOR ETCHERS | 2/15/1996 | See Source »

But that message is most appropriately and effectively conveyed not by the American State Department but by the International Monetary Fund, which is lending Russia billions of dollars and is therefore in a position to tell the Russians that if they do not follow sensible economic policies, Michael Mandelbaum is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUR OUTDATED RUSSIA POLICY | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

The pendulum swung the other way again in the 1920s, when William Foxwell Albright appeared on the scene. A professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins and the son of a Methodist missionary, he took a much more scientific approach than most of his predecessors. Rather than assume that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are the Bible's Stories True? Archaeology's Evidence | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

But the underdog is not always pure. When Villanova beat George-town to win the 1986 NCAA basket-ball championship, it was perhaps the greatest upset in college basketball history. Georgetown was led by Patrick Ewing, and had only lost once that season (by one point to St. Johns), while...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Underdog Days | 12/5/1995 | See Source »

Fast and fearless, these mice were six times as likely to pick a fight as normal, wild-type mice. And they scratched and bit so fiercely that researchers had to intervene to keep them from killing their rivals. Moreover, the males engaged in "excessive and inappropriate" sexual advances, mounting females...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONSTER MICE | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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