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...merely in verse, but also in print, University President Lawrence H. Summers continues to be the object of outsiders’ attention...
...Gaul could never be brought to a successful conclusion if similar revolts were allowed to break out," wrote his friend Aulus Hirtius. "So he decided to deter all others" by cutting off the hands of the prisoners taken at Uxellodunum and sending the survivors out across Gaul as an object lesson. Hirtius concluded, "The situation was now everywhere satisfactory...
...values. Presses like Avodah and AdHouse are now giving lush, full-color, square-bound, heavy-paper-stock treatment to those artists who only recently knew only photocopy carbon and staples. Leapfrogging comix into the realm of fine arts, this new attention to the aesthetics of the book as art object means to both "legitimize" formerly obscure artists and appeal to a broader audience that demands more than just comix for its money...
...they are lucky, novices may actually see one of Mars' ice caps or its broad, bright plains, but conditions would have to be perfect. Even without a telescope or a guide, there will be no mistaking the brilliant red starlike object that rises in the east just as the sun is setting and continues to climb higher throughout the evening. With Venus currently hidden by the sun's glare, only the moon will outshine Mars...
...session of four kindergartners, for example, one boy laughed as another had to draw undesirable cards in a game of Uno. When the laughing boy found himself in the same unhappy position a few minutes later, Cohen pointed out how nice it was that the earlier object of his ridicule was not laughing at him now. "We give them solutions, different strategies for playing well together," says Greenbaum. "We empower them with ways to solve the problem that take both people into account, like understanding that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose and neither is that big a deal...