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...break from the valley to explore an enormous ancient temple near the central village of Starosel. But when the 62-year-old archaeologist, a short, plump man known as Bulgaria's Indiana Jones, got word that looters had been spotted in the valley - at the site of a mid-5th century B.C. tomb near Kazanlak, 170 km east of Sofia - he dropped what he was doing and rushed to the scene. Whatever was in that tomb, Kitov's crew had to get to it first. Otherwise, the tomb raiders could make off with priceless historical artifacts. So Kitov and crew...
...collection, perhaps even over-represented since the museum already had so much of his output. Yet the new bequest includes 17 extraordinary oil-on-paper studies of the sky, circa 1850, with clouds that are variously stormy, striated, menacing and, rarely, light and fluffy. Boudin, then in his mid-20s, painted them outdoors, with rapid brushstrokes, and sometimes recorded the date, time and wind conditions on the back. He encouraged his friend Monet to try the same technique, an experiment that culminated in Monet's widely acclaimed variations on the Houses of Parliament in London and the waterlilies...
Chemistry can be a dangerous thing. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is one of those movies that has been marked with every possible harbinger of doom: reshoots, budget overruns, megastar casting woes, mid-shoot script rethinks and, of course, a notorious did-they-or-didn't-they on-set hookup between the two principals. So fervent is the tabloid interest that the two stars, who should be promoting their movie, are on another continent. Can the movie rise above its reputation? Will dozens of wrongs actually make a right...
DIED. PAUL KEENE, 94, a pioneer of the organic-food movement in the U.S.; in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Starting in the mid-1940s, when the government was urging farmers to use new chemicals for efficiency, until the sale of his farm in 2000, Keene ran Pennsylvania's Walnut Acres Farm, a hub for vegetables, free-range chicken, peanut butter and other foods produced without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and sold widely in health-food stores across...
Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism announced its 68th class of U.S. Nieman Fellows on Wednesday, 12 journalists who will spend the 2005-2006 academic year studying at Harvard as part of the world’s oldest mid-career fellowship for journalists...