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...Venice Biennale, a Turner Prize nominee in 1998, and the youngest artist to be given a retrospective at the Hayward Gallery in London. Although the title of her Beckham portrait winks at Michelangelo's most famous sculpture, she says her inspiration was another of his sculptures, Night, a curiously muscular, semiclad woman carved in the 1520s for the crypt of Giuliano de' Medici in the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence. Gazing at David, one can't help but think of Andy Warhol's Sleep - the 1963 work in which he trained his 16-mm camera on the slumbering form...
...whether the 1st Cavalry Division is going to get run out of Baghdad--it's not. The key question is, if you've got 70% of your combat battalions in the U.S. Army deployed in Afghanistan, Iraq, South Korea and elsewhere, can you maintain this kind of muscular presence in that many places? The answer is no. But if we take action now to increase the size of the Army by 80,000 soldiers, we'll be able to handle this global reach. The key would be to activate nine National Guard brigades in the next 18 months and convert...
...holds hundreds of people. The training, which involves not just a grueling program of physical activity but also frequent beatings and food deprivation, slowly breaks people down, then inculcates absolute loyalty to the party. Take the story of Daniel, 24, who declined to give his real name. Thickset and muscular, he slouches back in his chair as he speaks of raping girls in his camp. He had volunteered for the camps hoping to improve his skills as a carpenter. Instead, when he got there, he says, he was given alcohol, drugs and lessons in how to beat and kill...
Darren, who wears a crystal pendant over a black tank top that shows off muscular arms, says he’s prepared for rudeness and hang-ups. All calls must end with “On behalf of SBC, I thank you for your time,” even if the potential customer has already hung up. Says Darren, “I believe my share of nastiness won’t be too bad because I didn’t put that out when I was growing up. I honestly believe that things will balance themselves...
...Through 20 years in the United States Senate, John Kerry has stood up for the strongest military on Earth and a muscular internationalism that makes America safe while winning the cooperation of alllies,” Wade added...