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Sometimes, the international community tries to intervene and sends its armies on peacekeeping missions. Other times, the world sits idly during a genocide, as when one million civilians were slaughtered in Rwanda. But even when the international community does act, it never does so in time—in Kosovo...
Harvard finally got over the hump in the afternoon, scoring a big 17-5 win to split the two-game series with Cornell. The win snapped a three-game losing streak for Harvard. It also marked the third consecutive occasion Harvard split a weekend double-header with an Ivy League...
Garrison Keillor's account of his father's final illness [ESSAY, March 12] just confirms what I have told so many friends concerning the death of my own mother. We who stay behind miss the bad times with the deceased parent just as much as the good times. What wouldn...
Before Dennis Thatcher owned the title of world's most insignificant other, there was KEN, who not only had to play second fiddle to Barbie but also suffered the further indignity of having no genitalia. Ken, named after the son of Mattel founders Ruth and Elliot Handler, celebrated his 40th...
Many of his still lifes were lone objects like that: a half-peeled lemon exposing its snow-white pith, a warty green monument of a melon. But on occasion, especially in the 1860s, Manet would show his full ordering skill in a composition that anticipates what Cezanne came to in...