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...October afternoon in the year 2000. A girl stands beside her father, gazing out over the water as the setting sun burns orange into the soft waves. There’s a sensory overload—the whoosh of oars slicing the smooth surface of the river combines with the smell of hot dog vendors, the sight of families stretched out on picnic blankets, and the faint buzz of cars rolling by on Memorial Drive. Little does the girl, standing at water’s edge with her father on that October afternoon, know that in a few years...
...Edward Steichen Lives in Photography, which opened this week at Paris' Jeu de Paume, begins with a giant 5 m by 4 m shot of Manhattan's George Washington bridge. Feel free to make your own analogies. After all, Steichen (1879-1973) bridged the transition from photography's early soft-focus, pictorialist style to crisp modernism. He also linked the art world between New York and Paris, and made his own life a bridge from artist to critic to commercial photographer to museum curator. He has been hailed as the greatest photographer of the 20th century...
...defense in the country; Harvard is allowing a meager 75 yards per game on the ground. Its own ground attack is on the rise, with freshman Gino Gordon, the reigning Ivy Rookie of the Week, now sharing time atop the depth chart along with sophomore Cheng Ho.Entering the soft part of its schedule—Dartmouth and Columbia are on deck—the Crimson can cement its status as a top-two team in the Ivies with a win. Prediction: Harvard 30, Princeton 20PENN (2-3, 1-1) VS. NO. 16 YALE (5-0, 2-0)With every passing...
...general, the SIIC and Badr militia, who have shown more willingness to work with both the Coalition and Iran in their bid for power, advocate a soft partitioning of Iraq and the creation of a semi-autonomous political region in the South that they, of course, would control. The Sadrists, for their part, wrap themselves in a nationalist banner and advocate a strong central government in Baghdad, where the Sadrists have the majority of their most fervent constituency and the ear of the Shi'ite Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki, and where they run several key government ministries...
...next five to ten years or more, says Huang Jing, a China scholar with the Brookings Institute in Washington. Those leaders aligned with Hu broadly back his (so far unsuccessful) attempts to slow the country's obsessive pursuit of growth at all costs, engineer a soft landing for the overheated economy and ensure that the hundreds of millions of Chinese left behind by the extraordinary boom of the last two decades aren't permanently marginalized. Aligned against them is a group of leaders (often the children of senior Party members) who have benefited enormously from China's growth and want...