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...Sachs’ donations, “After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself,” has been held in a laboratory for many years, for fear that the brittle quality of the paper and the backing would react aversely outside of a controlled environment. Until Wednesday afternoon the drawing was soaking in a bath designed to humidify the paper...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Degas Exhibition Comes Full Circle At Sackler | 7/29/2005 | See Source »

...there was a difference between London on 7/7 and New York City on 9/11. The first was sheer scale. Mercifully, the atrocities in London were a fraction of the human cost of 9/11. And the second was related to that but not entirely explained by it. Americans often react to crises with action and emotion. They see a problem and want to fix it. Brits' reflexive instinct at such times is often calm and steady endurance. In London last week, the immediate quiet was perhaps the most striking thing--followed by an insistence on normality. "Work's over, but there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Quiet Power of the Stoic | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

Smart, ambitious women who love to shop, have difficulty sticking to a budget and react to emotional upheaval by dabbling in New Age spirituality don't attract much attention nowadays. If eventually they become fond of prescription medications, as her best modern biographer Jean H. Baker believes that Mary did (thereby clearing the way for Betty Ford), they may even have a rehab center named after them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Saga of Mary Todd | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

...question now facing the Ways and Means version of the tax bill is how the Reagan Administration will react. Unless the President decides to push it through Congress, the proposal will languish as legislators deal with other pressing issues like the budget and trade deficits. The White House has so far postponed taking a stand on it. Reporters inquired about the President's attitude toward the plan last week, when he appeared for a holiday photo session with a 55-Ib. gobbler named Wilfred. Quipped Reagan: "The only questions I will take today are about the turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Game New Plan On Taxes | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...President may abuse a weapon of war, however, is not sufficient reason to discard it. In a nuclear world where global struggles are, by necessity, fought at the margins, a country that cannot back up its words with actions is soon rendered impotent. Terrorism demands the capacity to react swiftly and surely. So does the difficult task of defending U.S. interests and countering the spread of surrogate Soviet regimes. Until the Pentagon faces up to the realities of low-intensity conflict, the U.S. will remain a highly visible and too often helpless target. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Michael Duffy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Warrior Elite For the Dirty Jobs | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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