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...back on the tracks because I see these elections as a way for women to run more successfully, both in terms of the outcome as well as the politics involved. Due to these elections, I feel confident that before I graduate, a woman will have broken through the first pane of the glass ceiling to become president...
...scene--or especially there. Vermeer's religious paintings and allegories aren't very moving or convincing; God is in the shimmering, glinting details of the house. In Young Woman with a Pitcher, circa 1658-60, the subject holds a gilt water pitcher while opening a casement window whose leaded pane looks just like a 1912 Mondrian apple tree turned on its side. Blue is everywhere: deep ultramarine in her skirt and sleeves, lighter blue in the cloth on the table, whose tone rhymes with the rolling bar of the map on the wall--a recession of precisely judged color echoes...
...pane of glass on the righthand window facing onto Mt. Auburn St. was shattered over the weekend and replaced yesterday between 12:30 p.m. and 1 p.m. by Massachusetts Glass Company, said a store employee who referred to himself as "Charlie...
...flight attendant cut on May 1, struggled with depression so severe that she was hospitalized by the end of the month. After court adjourned on Wednesday, one juror could be seen at her hotel window with an exhausted look on her face, her forehead pressed against the glass pane. "I'm really worried about some of the people still there,'' says Francine Florio-Bunten, a juror dismissed at the end of May. "Some of them are really on the edge...
...lives in a one-room shack. Along with him live his wife, five children and two nieces: nine people jammed into a space that measures 20 ft. by 20 ft. The house, on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota, has one tiny window with a plastic pane. It is made of Sheetrock and cheap wood siding. In winter the frigid South Dakota wind tears through it like a knife. When it rains, its dirt and sawdust floor becomes a swamp. Now, in a sweltering late summer, flies swarm in and out with impunity...