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...mood for a little shopping? Flanking Quincy Market are pricey gift and craft shops as well as such traditional favorites as Victoria's Secret, The Sharper Image, Banana Republic and The Gap. Don't forget to visit the seven-story Limited...
...only a few hundred gang members have been targeted, out of an estimated 150,000 in Los Angeles alone. But experts say last week's decision set the parameters for sharper measures. Says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe: "It just means they have to use a scalpel rather than an invisible mallet...
...write you as a mostly happy Harvard graduate. I am still intoxicated from the euphoria of Commencement, but all in all I can say I am satisfied with my experience. I am not sure if I have learned much of substance, but I know that I am a sharper writer and thinker and a more mature individual than I was four years ago. Harvard has helped prepare me for a happy, successful future...
...Inexpensive flatbed scanners often come with slide attachments, but their resolution is too low to pick up tiny details and subtle hues. A dedicated slide scanner like HP's $499 PhotoSmart S20, right, offers 2,400-dpi resolution for sharper results. Another choice, Olympus' ES-10 ($399), has an optional adapter for APS film...
...contrast between Kiefer and Polke couldn't be sharper, of course. Kiefer (whose drawings were recently shown at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art) is oratorical, Wagnerian; he is a flat-out mythomane, dedicated to the Sublime, the Enormous and the Ultra-German; a marvelous artist at his best and at his worst a Black Forest ham. Polke is thinner, weirder and more elusive. His work--whose basic nature developed during the period covered by this show, from 1963 to 1974--is a hard-to-read image haze formed by the overlay of Pop art on Germany...