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These three monologues are delivered in three identically antiseptic hotel rooms served by three identically silent dark-skinned waiters -- symbolizing the West's detached distance from the underprivileged terrain regarded as a "market." With these speeches Jon Robin Baitz, 31, vaults into the top rank of U.S. dramatists. He first came into view in 1987 with The Film Society, set in South Africa, where he spent his youth as an American businessman's son. The Substance of Fire pitted a father against his children for control of a New York City publishing firm. The End of the Day mocked...
Knowles said in a Faculty meeting last month that an independent survey taking into account seniority and rank had shown no such income differential...
Though history does not record how other Venetian painters felt about competing with Titian, it cannot have been easy for them. Especially not for Tintoretto, a genius of the first rank, whom Titian's longevity compelled always to be a runner-up. Titian's work, so masterly in its effects, so profoundly inventive, so grand in scope and yet relieved by such suppleness and intimacy of feeling, continued to set the tone of aspiration for Rubens in the 17th century and, through Rubens, for painters like Delacroix well into the 19th...
...focused almost exclusively on a single, critical issue: how to change the damaging perception that the nation's Commander in Chief is at odds with his military. According to a White House insider, Crowe offered a two-pronged strategy for handling the balky Pentagon brass and disrespectful rank and file: woo them with charm, but keep them in line with a firm hand. More precisely, Clinton was told, Defense Secretary Les Aspin "has to get tough and make them salute...
...people with more command experience, higher rank, applied for the job at Harvard," says Boston Lt. Det. Richard C. Cox, who now occupies the same corner office Johnson used when the chief was the area police commander for sections of Roxbury, North Dorchester and Mattapan. "I happen to be privy to the fact that after Paul's interview at Harvard, they basically stopped looking...