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Young was one of the most well-known figures on campus until his retirement in 1998, a fixture in the Yard usually seen with his aging tweed overcoat and dog Tizzy...
This last fact is rammed home early by a painting, Onkel Rudi (Uncle Rudi), 1965, enlarged from a snapshot of Richter's uncle grinning broadly, about to go to the front in his uniform. The uniform is a double-breasted Wehrmacht overcoat, for Uncle died for his Fuhrer. It comes as a shock. What is that damn Nazi doing in the Museum of Modern Art? His real home is even more jarring: Richter gave the painting to the memorial in Lidice, Czech Republic, commemorating one of the horrific slaughters of World War II. The image, taken from a family photo...
...Karzai, the answer sometimes is just to take care of the little things. On a recent afternoon, Afghanistan's interim leader decides to take the pulse of the capital, Kabul, on foot. Before setting out, he removes his trademark green-striped Uzbek robe and puts on a less flashy overcoat. Accompanied by a pair of aides but no bodyguards, he strolls through the palace gates to check out the city. He stops at a shop selling TV dishes, which had been banned by the fundamentalist Islamic former rulers, the Taliban, and exchanges friendly banter with a boy in the park...
Young was one of the most well known figures on campus until his retirement in 1998, a fixture of the Yard usually seen with his aging tweed overcoat and dog Tizzy...
...John Pitkin, the man in the overcoat, it’s been underway for two hours already. Pitkin is one of a dozen challengers in a field of 19 candidates vying for spots on the Cambridge City Council. He rose at 5:30 a.m. and an hour later was making last-minute plans for a party at his house that night to celebrate the end of the campaign...