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...form of female beauty," says Ahmad Mashadi, head of the National University of Singapore's art museum. The artist took his nationalistic mission seriously, often too seriously, dipping his brush deeply in bathos and nostalgia. Amorsolo's paintings were suffused with movement, but they could be earnest to the point of comedy. Though he produced some striking portraits, as well as a haunting landscape of Manila lying in smoky ruins after World War II, pastoral paintings are most common in Amorsolo's prodigious body of work - think of rows of smiling women harvesting rice in verdant fields, with a vibrancy...
When Iceland installed Johanna Sigurdardottir as Prime Minister last February, newspapers around the globe printed variations of the same headline: ICELAND APPOINTS WORLD'S FIRST GAY LEADER. Everywhere, that is, except Iceland. The Icelandic media didn't mention Sigurdardottir's sexuality for days, and only then to point out that the foreign press had taken an interest in their new head of state - a 67-year-old former flight attendant turned politician whom voters had consistently rated Iceland's most trustworthy politician. Sure, she was gay and had entered a civil partnership with another woman in 2002. But Icelanders hardly...
...didn't help that no single piece of information about Abdulmutallab was conclusive. For instance, a father's complaining that his son had joined the jihadist cause in Yemen doesn't automatically point to a threat to the homeland. Obama has vowed to improve intelligence sharing, but some experts are skeptical that the system can ever be fail-safe. "The next time, we may not have this many data points," says Bruce Hoffman, a counterterrorism expert at Georgetown University. "It may never be this good again...
Despite such efforts, many Allston residents thought the plan could have seen further improvement. At the final community input meeting in December, McHale and other Allston residents proposed a ten-point plan to improve the design, which included allowing space for backyards in the housing units and moving a nearby McDonald’s to make room for a more attractive plaza on Western Avenue. The residents wanted “more of a neighborhood feel,” McHale had said at the meeting...
...second, co-captain Kathryn Farni let a shot rip from the point that bounced hard off the glass behind the net. McDonald picked up the puck and pounded in her second goal of the night...