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...become a familiar pattern: Afghan elders were spared further agonizing over whether to hand over a 14-year-old boy accused of killing American Sergeant Nathan Roy Chapman last week when it emerged Monday that the boy had escaped. The previous week, Afghan militiamen had claimed to be closing in on fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar in Helmand province, but then the one-eyed cleric simply vanished. A month earlier at Tora Bora, local fighters claimed to have surrounded Osama bin Laden and some 2,000 of his henchmen in the cave complex, but by the time the last grotto...
...Crimson, who had defeated Rhode Island four days earlier despite an eight-point halftime deficit, acknowledged that it can’t expect to continue that pattern all season...
...portraits in this show follow a clear and fairly stereotyped pattern of development. The pattern emerges from Roman low-relief sculpture and contemporary portrait medallions, some of which are also on view. In early likenesses by Pisanello, Pollaiuolo and Uccello, the subject is seen in strict profile. This gives her remoteness: she doesn't look back at you or acknowledge your gaze in any way. She is on display in all her finery, in scarlet velvet or cloth of gold, in brocade and pearls--an icon of marital success and faithfulness. (The catalog has an excellent essay by Roberta Landini...
...This pattern makes sense. Investors look ahead to recovery, when the default rate will drop and make the lush yields on junk bonds more secure. That leads investors to bid up junk-bond prices, resulting in a capital gain. "We've already seen some junk bonds rally," says John Fenn, head of high-yield investments at J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management. Next year, he believes, junk bonds will deliver on their eye-popping 12% yields and produce a capital-gain kicker worth an additional 5% to 10%--for a total return of about...
...jawed face with its little tuft of beard in profile, the hand holding a cyclamen, against a madly spiraling background of fruit-jelly abstract forms. The dandified, loony energy of Feneon's argot-filled writing seems impacted into that background, even though its source is a Japanese kimono pattern. My, you think, those guys must have had some laughs together. Which they...