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During my first year of college, I was known for one skill: being able to tell what was for dinner in the Union from the middle of the Yard. I could discern the faint differences between the aroma of the scorched oil they used to cook fried chicken and the slightly pungent, greasy scent of spicy waffle fries. You could never get Hamburger Extravaganza past...
...fact, Guercino did not have Reni's breathtaking skill as a painter. But he was not afflicted by Reni's sentimentality either, and where he shone, as this compact and rewarding show makes clear, was in the act of drawing. By comparison with his preparatory drawings, Guercino's final paintings are quite often labored and stodgy. It is the drawings that contain his finest and most spontaneously registered perceptions, and fortunately many survive. George III, an avid collector, acquired nearly 350 of them, of which 60 are in the Drawing Center's show, and this can be only a fraction...
...question is how. As the first Protestant leader of a predominantly Roman Catholic country, Ramos needs to forge a new relationship with the church, which remains an important unifying force in a society riven by social, ethnic and political divisions. The job demands a felicitous combination of skill and character, and it is difficult to say whether Ramos has it. Though he has spent 46 of his 64 years in the public eye, he remains an enigma to all but a tight circle of relatives and friends, most of them fellow military men. A West Point graduate with a degree...
...used that tool with consummate skill. While still a graduate student, Hawking became fascinated by black holes, the bizarre objects created during the death throes of large stars. Working with mathematician Roger Penrose and using Einstein's relativity equations, he developed new techniques proving mathematically that at the heart of black holes were singularities -- infinitely dense, dimensionless points with irresistible gravity. He went on to demonstrate that the entire universe could have sprung from a singularity and, in his 1966 Ph.D. thesis, wryly noted that "there is a singularity in our past...
...should stay in college until summoned," said Comstock. "Only those with training and experience are needed immediately, and the longer the war lasts, the greater will be the value of the knowledge, imagination and trained skill [you] shall acquire here...