Word: panning
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Thus we still don't know, and perhaps never will, what is going on in Dosso's Allegory with Pan, circa 1529-32. Maybe the lascivious goat god (if it really is Pan, and not just an ordinary faun) is lusting after the beautiful Titianesque nymph asleep on the ground--who has been variously argued to be Antiope, Pomona, Echo, Canens and Syrinx, among other nymphs with literary pedigrees. But who is the old woman, and what is she doing? If her outstretched palms are protecting the girl, she's facing the wrong direction--away from Pan...
...idea has its roots in W.E.B. DuBois' 1909 proposal for a Pan-African encyclopedia, Appiah said. DuBois, who graduated from Harvard in 1890, never saw his idea come to fruition because of a lack of funding...
...claim was working for Pakistani intelligence -- accusing them of planning to bomb the U.S. embassy on January 26. U.S. investigators have flown to India to interrogate the suspects. "It's too early to confirm that this is Bin Laden," says Dowell. But even if the India plot doesn't pan out, Bin Laden is likely to planning more dramatic attacks. Says Dowell, "He needs the publicity...
With the 1998 championships under their belt, members of the Chess Club are already looking forward to next December's Pan-Am tournament, which will be held in Toronto...
...third of the team's expenses incurred during the Pan-Am tournament, approximately $3,000, was paid for by the Office of the Dean of Students, McClelland said. The other two-thirds, including the costs of hotel accommodations and plane tickets, came out of the Chess Club's treasury...