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Rare is the illustrated book in which pictures and words equally reward attention. The Altarpiece in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge; 240 pages; $75) admirably succeeds on both counts. For openers, it offers for the first time in English an extended essay by Jacob Burckhardt, the 19th century cultural historian best known for his The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860). Burckhardt's study of Italian altarpieces, originally published in German a year after his death in 1897, remains magisterially informative. And the accompanying reproductions, including work by Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Titian and Michelangelo, do more than supplement Burckhardt's text...
...much of a reward do you expect for yourself...
...Does any chief executive deserve that kind of reward...
...risks of the off-season occasionally yield an unexpected reward. Travelers are well advised to pack an umbrella and waterproof shoes -- but it may just turn out that they aren't needed after all. There are few pleasures greater than Indian summer in November or a pale, warm winter week after Christmas in which to savor the sights that in summer are all too often lost...
Specifically, Bush has promised to increase funding for a variety of programs that serve students from preschool through college, to reward schools that raise test scores and to award cash bonuses to outstanding teachers. Now that the White House is his, TIME will take the President-elect at his word. During the next four years, the magazine will occasionally grade Bush on his progress in addressing one of the nation's most urgent problems...