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...imaginative, ingenious and inventive. All are adjectives that apply to the 26 paintings Mike Wilks has devised in celebration of the alphabet. Each picture in The Ultimate Alphabet (Holt; $19.95) contains a multitude of objects illustrating a single letter. Among the 259 items in G, the reader is invited to identify a Gypsy guitarist garbed in gaudy garments in a graveyard full of graven images. The T painting teems with 427 items, including Tweedledum and Tweedledee and enough trees to traumatize a topiarist. For the reader who spots the most words, the publishers offer a $15,000 prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pleasures for the Holidays | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

Though the Administration has so far ignored Hyder, 24 physicists, including Nobel Laureate Sheldon Glashow, joined in a one-day sympathy fast with him and signed a letter in support of his goals, though not of his tactics. "I hope he decides not to fast to his death," said Glashow, "Maybe then he can live to see his dreams come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes Dec 15 1986 | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...sodomized. "I mean it's really beginning to be pathetic," Stevens says on the tapes, adding, "She had accused her husband of molesting the child." The woman, he concluded, was a "banana truck." Questions about the mental state of the boy's mother had also been raised by a letter mentioning witches and Satanism that she wrote to the D.A. in February 1984, a month before the seven defendants were indicted. Stevens claims to have been surprised when the Manns told him they had learned that the letter had not been made available to the defense. In criminal cases, evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Hollywood Tapes and Testimony | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...send your letter to: TIME Magazine Letters, Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Center, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 5, 2007 | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...effort to revamp the core curriculum “will not amount to any meaningful change” unless the final General Education report includes more stringent guidelines about which courses will count under the new requirements, three undergraduate focus groups concluded yesterday. In a letter sent to the Task Force on General Education, the students expressed broad support for the task force’s philosophy of general education as preparation for life after Harvard. In contrast, the current core emphasizes exposure to different academic approaches to knowledge. But the students expressed concern that the proposed categories could become...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Echo Faculty Concerns | 1/22/2007 | See Source »

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