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...When the saber-toothed chieftains of American capitalism wanted models of political or cultural patronage, it was to Lorenzo de' Medici, prototype of city bosses, that they turned. Siena seemed less Promethean, less inventive. Its great moment in painting, by common consent, had come in the late 13th and 14th centuries, with the work of Duccio, Simone Martini and the Lorenzetti brothers. Then social and economic catastrophe struck in 1348, when the Black Death wiped out more than half its population. While it is true that Sienese painting and sculpture for the next 150 years did not have the extraordinary...
Whether or not the candidates are sincere in their disapproval of the treaty, they risk little by their saber rattling. In last week's NBC debate, Kemp lashed out at the Soviets for violating past treaties. "We should not rush into signing an agreement with the Soviet Union," he declared, "until we force them to comply with previous agreements." While Kemp called for unrealistically stringent verification procedures, Robertson's conditions for signing an arms accord seemed even more fanciful: he glibly recommended "a rollback, a decolonization, if you will, of the Soviet empire." Du Pont was a bit more temperate...
Critical to the outcome was Harvard's 0-9 record in saber matches. Fencing tournaments are based on 3 types of events--saber, foil, and epee--each worth nine points. Teams need at least 14 points to win a match...
...very young saber team, and that was a crucial point," Zivkovic exlained. "When you lose nine in one weapon, it demoralizes the other teams...
...girls to their abortions." Postcards, which is really five connected vignettes, loses its bite when it strays from its emotional base in the clinic. But not before Fisher, who once expected to be remembered only as Star Wars' Princess Leia, proves that the pen is mightier than the light-saber...