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...Mather House resident suffered minor cuts from broken glass, but managed to hold up a window and prevent it from falling 13 stories to the street below yesterday...
...role in tracking down Ames has never been reported, but many at the CIA call her the heroine of the investigation. The following excerpt from Nightmover, David Wise's new book about the Ames case, deals with Vertefeuille's story. "The CIA thought it had picked a minor leaguer, but she proved she was good enough for the majors," says Wise. "In the end, she got Ames...
...induce surfeit. After them, the Spanish still-life tradition nose-dived into academism and decor through the 18th century, with the single exception of the Madrid painter Luis Melendez (1716-80), whose massive arrays of boxes, wrinkled cheeses, copper cookware and glittering dorados or sea bream were disparaged as minor art by academic pooh-bahs and never won him the success he deserved. But other than France's Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, there was no finer still-life painter in 18th century Europe...
These are the people that embraced the minor-leagues as a cheaper, folksier, more affordable alternative to the majors...
...while the numbers in attendance may fluctuate, this is again a minor problem. Except for the rare cases where a lecture class for 40 finds itself a seminar of 15, there is not a substantial difference in the content of lectures for a class that has 75 students...