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...Regional Cooperation, a political and economic forum for eight South Asian countries, was "connectivity." Despite the fact that this talkfest slogan was so obvious as to be meaningless, regional leaders took it seriously enough. During the meeting they agreed to work toward a South Asian community that has a "smooth flow of goods, services, peoples, technologies, knowledge, capital, culture and ideas ..." Yet even as the agreement was being drafted, bureaucrat underlings back home were contemplating new ways to separate themselves from neighboring countries-not through trade barriers or diplomatic hurdles, but with actual, physical walls...
...Last year at the Compton Cup, the Tigers won the trophy for the first time in five years—the first time in the series’ history that they had done so on the Charles River. This weekend, however, on a day of smooth waters and light winds on Lake Carnegie, N.J., Harvard won all four races of the morning in a clean sweep over the Princeton and MIT boats...
...opened with the simplest of questions: Did he think he would win? To a smooth politician, it would have been a welcome softball. But nothing came easy to Russia's tortured President. "I'm a President," he sputtered with obvious disdain, "not a fortune teller." And off he stormed...
From the opening notes of solo piece “Lisa,” there was no way anyone could forget Palmieri’s presence. “Lisa” traveled many moods, from being smooth and easy to being ultimately choppy, tense, and throbbing with emotion...
...more representational style. The legacy of Léger’s early experimentation is seen in the fragmented forms, but his return to representative art is impossible to miss. Léger depicts the world by assembling basic shapes and bold colors into paintings that emphasize smooth, natural forms. This exhibit illustrates the stylistic permutations of a great modern painter without assuming vast knowledge of 20th century art. In capitalizing on an opportunity to showcase the trajectory of Léger’s career, the Fogg has assembled a collection that speaks for itself...