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...most likely explanation, say Peter Fawcett of the University of New Mexico and Mark Boslough of the Sandia National Laboratory, is planetary rings. They speculate that a large asteroid hit the Earth at an oblique angle and plowed across the surface for some distance before ricocheting away. In the process, the theory goes, it sprayed molten and vaporized Earth and asteroid chunks into space, where some pieces went into orbit and eventually formed an opaque ring...
...which brought many dealers to the area from those countries. Its standing as a port city and a major Southern trading center stimulated the growth of the business. And the city's culture and music has attracted many people in the arts with an affinity for antiques. Says Peter Moss, co-owner of Keil's Antiques on Royal Street, which was founded by his great-grandmother Hermina Keil in 1899: "Antiquing is an Old World business, and New Orleans is an Old World town with a lot of color and history...
...young Adolf the aspiring painter) plumbed the cinema's inexhaustible fascination with Mr. Bad. And when you can't blame one person, blame the culture. Among the festival's most praised films were two parables of hypocrisy set in the 1950s and '60s: Todd Haynes' Far from Heaven and Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters. Far from Heaven is inspired by those glossy '50s romances produced by Ross Hunter and directed by Douglas Sirk. Haynes takes the alcoholic husband from Written on the Wind, the race mixing of Imitation of Life and the matron-in-love-with-her-gardener plot...
According to Peter Gray, a graduate student who took part in the research, this study is only the “starting ground...
...Peter J. Gomes, Plummer professor of Christian morals and minister at the Memorial Church. He is author of several books, including the best-seller The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart. What heaven will really be like, and will I like it, assuming arrival...