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...paint in such proportions before. His brush erect above the canvas, he paused, deliberated, then decided to begin with a more manageable area of his subject’s anatomy.His subject was posed gracefully upon a marble pedestal, his skin gleaming bronze beneath the white folds of linen, his laurel-crowned brow lifted heavenward. Between brow and heaven was extended a manly hand, rough and calloused from hard labor, yet surprisingly sensitive. A cut pomegranate balanced heavily upon his long tapered fingers. Each seed gleamed redly from within the open wound of the fruit. It was the hand...
...might and offer a pick of poisons: if not support for Iraq, then increased focus on Afghanistan. As voters in countries like Canada, Britain, and France have made clear, being against the war entirely can still be a viable alternative. It would be a grave error to mistake a laurel leaf for a white flag. For the time being, however, any discussion at all would be preferable to the bizarre public neglect of a country with which we are still at war. U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen has himself stated explicitly that...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained about 600 workers at a factory in Laurel on suspicion that they were illegal immigrants. It was ICE's largest raid at a single workplace; in May, agents descended on a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa, arresting some 400 people. ICE arrested nearly 5,000 workers...
...much as I'd like to, I cahn't join the chorus of critical contumely. The Love Guru is a shambling, hit-or-miss thing, like an old Laurel and Hardy two-reeler. And like the situations those comics often got into, this movie is a fine mess...
...Committee chair Jay M. Harris also said the the most represented area of the roughly 40 proposals received has been the humanities. “It’s pretty obvious you’re not going to map out any curriculum from scratch,” said Professor Laurel Ulrich, who will begin teaching “Pursuits of Happiness” next fall. “It also seems like a terrible waste of resources to throw out courses that are working. ... It’s a question of what students are required to do and where...