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...Engraved Passion, represent a more restrained DŸrer. In the Small Passion, he creates what Fogg Museum print curator Marjorie Cohn describes as a comic book-like effect: 36 prints, each one possessing a strong left-to-right dynamic, pull the viewer through the Christian narrative, from original sin to the last judgment. This series of doctrinal woodcuts, which were, unlike engravings, cheap and available to great swaths of society, takes advantage of mass media as efficiently as anything that has come after...
Peru's immediate future remains murky, and there's still a strong possibility of a coup within the next 48 hours. Fired intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos is now reportedly holed up in the well-fortified headquarters of the feared SIN intelligence service, guarded by 800 commandos. President Fujimori now seems to be furiously backpedaling from his announcement disbanding the SIN and ordering early elections because he's been unable to win the support of the military, and that may have created a power vacuum...
...country until July 2001. He said he couldn't reveal Montesinos's whereabouts because that might put the intelligence chief's life in danger from drug traffickers and terrorists. There was no mention of Montesinos being fired or replaced or, as Fujimori had earlier promised, of the SIN being disbanded...
...education photo-ops and speeches in key states. But what was planned as a week of centrist appeals ended up being consumed by Bush's halting efforts to explain his tax-cut plan. In the first week of head-to-head campaigning after the conventions, Bush committed a cardinal sin: he let his opponent pull him off message...
Coloroso's book, which also covers divorce and illness, is a true self-help book, and she is an adherent of pop-psych locutions. The "five S's" of suicide and murder, she says, are "stigma, shame, secrets, silence and sin." The "TAO" of family is an acronym for the three things we need when our lives are thrown into chaos: time, affection and optimism. Some of Coloroso's observations are wise; others will be annoying to those less inclined toward this approach. But it's hard to quibble with her favorite formulation: "Life is not fair. Life hurts. Life...