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...villain of Children is the cowardly and spiteful Morgoth, who's your basic evil incarnate. Tolkien's baddies rarely have much in the way of personality, and Morgoth spends most of his time squatting in his dark fortress of Angband, casting a shadow over the land and generally making war on all that is just and beautiful. He leaves most of the actual scrapping to his lieutenants, most notably Glaurung, a wingless, wormy and rather sarcastic dragon...
...became tiresome not being able to see the treasures she had collected. Now they are grouped like exquisite Dutch Old Master still lifes in this home where she and her partner, Narda van't Veer, one of Holland's leading photo agents, live and work (they lease out the land for others to farm). "I like it this way, although the chandelier should be bigger," says Ravestijn, gesturing upwards. A larger one was taken down and sold the day before...
...Following the controversial land purchases in Allston, revealed in 1997, Boston’s Mayor Thomas M. Menino asked Harvard to fund a neighborhood planning process that would coordinate the University’s plans for the approximately 100 acres then in their possession with community needs...
Just 10 years ago, University officials were scrambling to restore Harvard’s reputation, transforming it from an underhanded real estate corporation to a world-renowned research university advancing the public good. The Boston Globe had just reported that the University had purchased 52 acres of land in Allston under the guise of a front company, and outcry had erupted in City Hall and local living rooms...
...always going to be an artist, since I was a kid, but the impact that farming had was tremendous. It's a very sculptural activity. Not just dry stone walls but stacking bales - big minimalist sculptures, beautiful and enormous. Plowing a field is drawing lines on the land, painting the fields - it's incredibly visual. And the dead animals. When you're a farm kid you see death all the time. When you see spring lambs hopping around the fields and then go round the back of the farm, there's a pile of dead lambs every year - that...