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...Rome -- the immense residue of form and narrative from the classical past. There seems to be no evidence one way or the other about Poussin's religious life or the strength of his faith. Probably he was neither pious nor a freethinker, but a stoic who could, when required, perform as a remarkable religious painter, as the second series of his The Seven Sacraments shows. His early Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, 1628, sticks in the mind because it is such a singular combination of ferocity and decorum -- the torture of a saint by evisceration, a live man's guts being...
...flight to Kazakhstan, the huge and barren former Soviet republic. Their mission: to pack more than 1,300 lbs. of highly enriched uranium into barrels for shipment back to the U.S. to prevent the material from falling into the wrong hands. They had only a few weeks to perform the delicate procedure. The harsh Central Asian winter was coming, and once it arrived, it would be difficult to fly out of the desolate Kazakh site...
...they would probably do the same thing again. For team member Richard Taylor, a 20-year Oak Ridge employee, the sense of accomplishment was exhilarating. "How many times do you get to cross 11 time zones, spend a month and a half in a foreign country and get to perform a secret operation...
...will include the traditional Kwanzaa feast and gathering for which Brothers, a subdivision of Kuumba, will be singing. Members of Harvard African Students Association may perform traditional African dances as well...
...couldn't tell that by watching her perform...