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...always overcome the underlying gray tones, and he painted from wax models rather than directly from the figure. On his death in 1614, 50 models were found among his effects. Despite disdaining anatomy, he loved the texture of fur, hair, trees and starched linen. St. Jerome as Scholar (ca. 1600-1614) is almost all oversized red cape, silky white beard, fuzzy hair and black eyebrows complete with stray white feelers. In The Crucifixion With Two Donors (ca. 1580) you can almost feel the left-hand donor's crumpled surplice. The other's ruff is scribbled in white paint...
...stereotypes ran elections, Clark would be the dream candidate of Southern blacks. Another Rhodes scholar from Arkansas, he's trying to come across as Bill Clinton with a military pedigree. Last week he dutifully turned up in Columbia for Martin Luther King Day, marching at a rally against the Confederate battle flag and clapping his hands at a service at Zion Baptist church. "The military's full of African Americans, and a number of them are dying in Iraq," notes Buffalo Soldier Blair Talmadge, 41, of Philadelphia. But like all voters, African Americans want to know what the candidates will...
...Thanksgiving dinner to homeless people in Charleston and bringing congregations to their feet across the state. But as the black vote becomes less uniform, a boutique black candidate suffers. "A lot of blacks in South Carolina want the same thing as people in Iowa," says David Bositis, a scholar at the Washington Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. "They want somebody who can beat Bush." --Reported by Tim Padgett/Charleston, Perry Bacon Jr. and Karen Tumulty/Washington, Greg Land/Atlanta, Ruth Laney/Baton Rouge, Michael Peltier/Tallahassee and Constance E. Richards/Greenville
...A.P.U., professors invoke religion not just in required theology courses, but in biology and English as well. Carole Lambert, an English professor and Fulbright scholar who came to A.P.U. from the University of California, Berkeley, says she introduces spirituality into classroom discussions, telling her students when reading books about war, for example, that she is a pacifist because of how she interprets the Scriptures. Professors at A.P.U. must sign a pledge affirming that they "believe the Bible to be the inspired, the only infallible, authoritative word of God" to work at the college, a requirement gladly accepted by the faculty...
...leading scholar in political science, she is also Rockefeller university professor of politics...