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...down to one of the military units in my hometown in South India. People lined the streets and waved as always. Traffic came to a standstill as the official convoy went by. In the hot Indian sunshine, she seemed tireless and determined, her strong features and white-streaked hair lent her an air of invincibility. To me, she embodied the strength of India, its achievements, its aspirations and its very spirit. For many Indians, there is today a personal sense of loss. Indira was not always one of the world's greatest leaders...
They had filed for homesteads along an old mining road, about six miles from the river. All summer they chopped spruce and birch trees, pulled stumps, dug wells, fought off bears, baked bread and canned moose and porcupine meat. They planted a garden on a cleared acre of land lent by Shorty Bradley, who had trapped and hunted in the area off and on since 1939. Marino Sik cleared two acres and built a barn, and worked late into the cold autumn nights to finish a log lean-to for his trailer. He was sick of trying to work communally...
...show's wardrobes, designed by Emmy Winner Nolan Miller, cost $18,000 an episode. Twelve to 15 new outfits are created for each hour, and none are worn twice. The popular series has even spawned a line of Dynasty clothing and home furnishings, and Collins has lent her name to a line of medium-priced jewelry...
...artists, and Picasso most of all, were enthralled by the associative power of the fetish. The otherness of tribal art was infinitely compelling, and remains so today: practically no Western sculpture in the 20th century has the sheer iconic majesty of the wooden goddess from the Caroline Islands lent to MOMA from Auckland, New Zealand, or the creepy terribilita of the British Museum's figure of the Austral Islands' god A'a, one of Pi casso's favorites. The main value of primitive art to modernism was not formal but quasi-magical. It gave the artist...
...Science reported: "Harvard delays in reporting fraud." This was a case of fraud (Jan 29) in medical research. This hurt all of us. This failure lent support for the most common excuse: "everyone else does it". Harvard does it too. Our standards of excellence should not--must not--delay in reporting fraud or in swiftly correcting the reasons for the delay and the fraud...