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...Abizaid, who is a realist above all, was deadly serious last week when he asked--and got approval from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld--for an increase of 20,000 troops in Iraq to deal with the insurgency. Abizaid, 53, is savvy enough to push Rumsfeld when he wants to. Although Rumsfeld refused last summer to call what was happening in post-Saddam Iraq a guerrilla war, Abizaid forthrightly referred to it as "a classical guerrilla-type campaign." Says a fellow commander about Abizaid: "He's smart enough...
...Kristen is adept, realist, smarter than...
...most famous work to date is about a completely different dystopia —the sexual nightmare that was reading-list favorite, the 1985 The Handmaid’s Tale. Oryx and Crake is somewhat of a return to her roots after a series of well-received realist novels, including Cat’s Eye and the Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin...
Purdy’s most recent project is an art gallery that includes work from local artists, as well as his own work. The collection revolves around abstract, “semi-abstract” and realist works. Purdy, who trained at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts School, admits that the art business is difficult. “Art is so intangible that people have difficulty understanding its intrinsic value,” he says. On Mondays and Tuesdays, the space offers a drawing class, during which a model comes to sit for portraits and figure drawing...
...Harvard Film Archive (HFA) continues its series on Ning Ying, a Chinese director who has gained worldwide acclaim for her humorous, realist portraits of contemporary China. I Love Beijing is the final film in her award-winning Beijing trilogy and focuses on a cabbie who maintains a second life as a would-be Casanova. 9 p.m. Tickets $8/$6 students...