Word: roberte
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...Nachtwey's picture of a man staring up at one of the smoking World Trade Center towers perfectly renders the initial astonishment before it turned to horror. Letizia Battaglia, who risked her life to photograph the Mafia in Sicily, is treated with no less respect than exemplary war photographer Robert Capa. Gideon Mendel, who has doggedly tracked aids around the world, has equal billing with Martin Parr, England's foremost photographic satirist of class and consumerism. In his wicked portrait of a couple seated in a restaurant, the romance of married life seems to belong in the barely remembered past...
...lively history of finance. Even more improbably, the book is gorgeous. You can see the crimson illumination on the Ligatio pecuniae and read the fine print on a futures contract from the Dutch West India Co. Each chapter is a minihistory written by stars like Niall Ferguson and Robert Shiller, who explain in rich prose the connections between Chinese pawnshops, Greek moneylenders and, ultimately, the cash in your pocket. --By Jyoti Thottam
PLAYERS TO WATCH QB Brad Maurer (Jr.), RB Jonathan Hurt (Jr.), WR Brandon Stanford (Sr.), T Drew Buettner (Sr.), C Robert Stroble (Sr.), DL Marvin Snipes (Jr.), LB Maurice Bennett (Sr.), LB Andrew Brown (Sr.), CB Larry Johnson...
...high-flying Bulldogs offense led by Alvin Cowan, Nate Lawrie, Ralph Plumb, and Robert Carr was supposed to have led Yale to a pair of Ivy titles. Before that, it was a solid Princeton squad which was supposed to unseat Harvard and blow past Penn en route to the crown...
...Roberts arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1973, when he moved into Straus D-21 with Robert N. Bush ’77 and Patrick Ross Jr. ’77. By the time he set foot in Harvard Yard, he was a budding conservative...