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...However, beyond this grammatical component lies the more general offense: a lack of artistic integrity. When altering any work of art, it is essential to keep to the original work and meaning of the artist as intact as possible. When the Vatican fully renovated the Sistine Chapel (incidentally, also in 1994), it made extremely conservative and meticulous decisions to stay true to the original intentions of Michelangelo’s ceilinged masterpieces. The 1994 revision of “Fair Harvard,” however, completely departed from Gilman’s original meaning. It seemed that the fair alums...

Author: By Brian S Gillis | Title: Fair Harvard | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...lack of popularity of Pelosi's views was evident in the fact that her first day on the ground Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki did not make an effort to see her. Maliki is currently in the northern city of Mosul overseeing a crackdown on insurgent networks there. But the city has been largely quiet in recent days, and there was no obvious pressing reason for the Prime Minister to skip Pelosi's arrival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pelosi Gets Quiet Reaction in Iraq | 5/17/2008 | See Source »

Europe's increasingly dire struggle with illegal immigration reached a new extreme this month as child migrants held on a Greek island launched a hunger strike to protest the lack of proper shelter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Child Migrants on Hunger Strike | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

Some 500 suspected insurgents have come under arrest as part of the operation. But the lack of significant resistance among the hardened fighters who had been operating in Mosul suggested the insurgency was offering Maliki and his American backers a message of their own: We fight on our terms, not yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maliki's Mosul Offensive | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

...position had provided Chalabi with some political capital, and a little publicity. His political organization, the Iraqi National Congress, recently launched a weekly newspaper dedicated to citizens' complaints about the lack of services around Baghdad. An op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on April 12 wrote that "arguably [Chalabi] has, more than anyone in the country, evolved a detailed sense of what ails Baghdad and how to fix things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chalabi's Short-Lived Comeback | 5/16/2008 | See Source »

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