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...victory over the Quakers (4-3, 2-3) at Sheerr Pool.Harvard had five double-winners in the meet, including record-breaking performances from freshman Kate Mills and senior Samantha Papadakis.“I thought this was a good way to get back into racing mode again,” head coach Stephanie Morawski said. “It was a low-pressure meet, but our swimmers treated it as a very serious opportunity to set themselves up for the rest of the season.”Mills continued her impressive rookie campaign by setting another pool record...
...self-named brand to the French cosmetics giant L'Oreal for an undisclosed but enormous sum in 2003. But he continued to be the driving creative force behind the company. Until recently, Uemura twice-a-year personally demonstrated his makeup skills in public, showing off the latest in his Mode Makeup collections in Tokyo, London and sometimes New York City...
...same ambivalence. We add safeguards one day, then shortcut them the next. One government budget contains millions of dollars for prosecutions, while another department spends more millions to defend against them. Indeed, the very essence of ambiguity is our vain search for a bloodless, odorless, motionless, painless, foolproof mode of killing healthy people. No amount of patching changes the nature of a Rube Goldberg machine. In 1996 Congress passed an extensive overhaul of capital punishment, but as in all previous overhauls, the changes quickly spawned new nuances to appeal. Ten years later, one of the most skillful anti-death-penalty...
...Figure: Arch Leg from 1969, with its complicated balance of volume and void, are proof that Moore's gift for forceful, enigmatic forms didn't entirely desert him even in the '60s. He was the opposite of a Baroque sculptor. No corkscrewing flights of form for him. His default mode was a block volume as static and weighty as a desert mesa, or as the reclining Chacmool figures of pre-Columbian art that were another of his early inspirations. But by dividing a figure into two or three separate parts, an approach he started taking as early as 1934, Moore...
Which, of course, a lot of people do. And despite the fact that, as Harris puts it, his current literary mode "is not beach reading," they may find that they are keeping up with his academic writings more avidly - and nervously - than they do his bestsellers...