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...gulf war spectacular had been a movie, the credits could have listed Jimmy Carter as a progenitor of the Tomahawk cruise missile and Ronald Reagan as merchant prince of the huge weapons inventory that crushed the evil foe. But the fellow who may actually have had more to do with authoring the success story is never mentioned: Jerry Ford...
...same, Popova's talents as a painter could hardly have grown as fast and as confidently as they did without the security of her liberal, upper- middle-class background, the way of life the revolution mercilessly crushed. She was the adored child of a rich Moscow textile merchant, whose money enabled her to go to Paris in 1913 and study under those secondary Cubists, Jean Metzinger and Henri le Fauconnier. Even her student work -- the big studio nudes in a Cubist idiom represented in the show -- has striking analytic toughness. Its painted planes, jutting and curling in imagined space, become...
...loser. Even after the Iraqi leader cavalierly jettisoned their cause during last- ditch peace negotiations with the Soviets, many Palestinians refuse to believe they have been abandoned by yet another Arab leader. "It's very hard for Palestinians to admit that they were sold out," said Mohammed Kamel, a merchant from Jerusalem's Old City. "We are depressed and desperate because we have no friends and no allies. This is the story of our lives...
Yesterday, Natalie Zemon Davis, a professor of history at Princeton University, addressed more than 100 members of the Harvard community on the autobiography of a 17th century Jewish merchant woman. The lecture focused primarily on the first part of Davis's upcoming book, Women on the Margin, in which she analyzes the lives of 17th century Jewish Catholic and Protestant women...
...invasion, is the basic document calling on Iraq to get out of Kuwait. And the long string of conditions attached to the withdrawal that the U.N. had insisted be unconditional might well be an initial bid designed to be taken little more seriously than a bazaar merchant's opening price quotation...