Word: painting
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...first half and scored 15 of the Crimson’s 27 points on 7-for-11 shooting in 19 minutes of action as Harvard outscored the undersized Lions—who started just one player over 6’5—8-4 in the paint and limited Columbia to just one offensive rebound...
Most of all, Harvard shot the lights out. The Crimson scored points on layups, on threes, at mid-range, at long-range, in the paint, off turnovers, off fast breaks and on cuts through the lane and to the basket...
...Angeles. The airline promised that no one-way Ted fare would ever go above $299. Taking Ted from San Francisco to Las Vegas costs $219, far cheaper than a regular United flight on the same route ($710) or than an America West flight ($347). But like the new paint job, most of Ted's other changes seem superficial. The staff were United attendants wearing orange baseball caps and TED'S FRIEND buttons. Passengers on flights of more than 2 1/2 hours were offered a menu of low-carb meals. The promised Tedvision, however, turned out to be a single channel...
...available to Susan Vreeland for her new book, The Forest Lover (Viking; 333 pages). Vreeland's previous novel was The Passion of Artemisia, about the Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. Vreeland's heroine this time is the Canadian painter Emily Carr, who died in 1945, after devoting her life to painting Canada's Pacific coastal woodlands and its native tribes in a swelling, Expressionist style. For much of that time, Carr was scorned not only as a woman determined to paint but also as one who ventured into the wilderness to do it. Worse, her most beloved motif was the totem...
...majority; but among the Arabs the minority Sunni who have traditionally ruled Iraq appear unwilling to submit to the domination of the Shiite majority that direct democracy would bring. The CPA has used the capture of a document allegedly written by an al-Qaeda associate, Musab al-Zarqawi, to paint the danger of civil war as arising primarily from a diabolical al-Qaeda strategy, but Brahimi warned that the Iraqis were quite capable of getting there by themselves. "Civil wars do not happen because a person makes a decision, 'Today, I'm going to start a civil war' ," he told...