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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most enjoyable class during my two undergraduate years was Fine Arts A, a full-year studio course in drawing and painting that had been created by Arthur Pope. The lectures, which focused on a handful of paintings (most of which I was pleased to find hanging in the Uffizi when I visited Florence many years later), were a minor part of the course. The "labs" (as they were actually called--a sign of the prevailing attitude toward the studio and performance arts) were everything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Learning the Material That Won't Be Tested | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

...NATURAL AND INHERENT RIGHT OF MARRIAGE...WHICH IS TO INCREASE AND MULTIPLY. --Pope Leo XIII Sullivan answers those who argue that marriage is for procreation by saying that same-sex marriage is no different from sterile or elderly heterosexuals' marrying. Why should they have the right to marry and not homosexuals? But social scientist Wilson believes the raising of children remains the central role of marriage because "we have found nothing else that works as well." Besides, both Bennett and Wilson say, Sullivan undermines his own argument that the absence of children should not be an impediment to gay marriages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISSUES '96: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...Mafioso, who are really brutal." Brusca is also accused of masterminding the 1993 car bombs that damaged the Uffizi museum in Florence, two churches in Rome and an art gallery in Milan. He planned the bombings following the arrest of Salvatero Riina, the Mafia's Boss of bosses, and Pope John Paul II's public condemnation of La Cosa Nostra. -->