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...quoting such luminaries as John Kenneth Galbraith '50, James Q. Wilson '63, Martin H. Peretz '65 and Al Gore '69, including former Crimson executives Michael E. Kinsley '72 and James M. Fallows '70. One can sense the months spent conducting interviews and amassing varying perspectives to present a balanced portrait of how the riots were perceived by everyone, from leftist student revolutionaries to conservative academics...
...some of the smaller party leaders, including former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky, who is also a voice of conscience in Israel, may prove decisive. These leaders have long warned that they will pull out of the coalition if charges of dirty work are confirmed. The Attorney General's critical portrait of questionable politicking, together with the details in the police report, may be enough to send Sharansky's immigrants' party and the centrist Third Way Party heading for the door. With 11 seats between them, their departure would topple the government, which has a majority of six. "If a harsh...
...entire length of the gallery. They range from Yan Liben's Thirteen Emperors' Scroll, the only surviving visual record of a series of Chinese emperors, to the scrolls of the famous emperor and artistic patron Huizong, whose devotion to the arts cost him his throne, to the earliest portrait of Confucius. These paintings overwhelm the viewer not only with their historical importance but also with their delicate and subtle rendering of volume, depth and material detail...
...have understandably crumbled under the pressure and perhaps delayed the racial integration for years. Had Robinson been a mediocre player his actions would have been amazing enough. Yet Jackie Robinson was one of the most outstanding players to ever play the game. His decade in the majors was a portrait of excellence: a World Series, an MVP trophy, the Rookie of the Year Award (since named the Jackie Robinson Award), a six-time All-Star and, finally, a Hall-of-Famer on the first ballot. How should baseball remember a man who was more than a pioneer...
...greater worth to imaginative literature than to recitations of real events: "Poetry tends to express universals, and history particulars." Authors have largely sided with Aristotle. When James Joyce decided to write about his harsh Irish childhood, he reinvented himself as Stephen Dedalus and created the imagined worlds of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses...