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Rawlins cited Annan's role in spear-heading successful initiatives within the UN such as the international treaty on land mines and the establishment of the first permanent criminal court to try genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, examples that elicited applause from the audience...
...these, the most intriguing is Eel Spearing at Setauket, 1845. It is a painting not of Mount's own childhood memory but of someone else's. A New York attorney named Strong commissioned it from him; the little boy in the back of the boat is Strong, and the imposing black woman wielding her eel gig in the bow was his father's servant, Rachel Hart. With its strong diagonals of paddle and spear shaft, and the magical stillness of the water in which the figures, the landscape and the boat are doubled, this is the most resolved picture...
...informal "alternative band name" game whenever we get together. To play is simple. Listen closely to everything you and your friends say. If you're quick enough, you'll pick out odd phrases that put genuine alternative band names--like Perfect Thyroid, Infamous Gnomosexuals, Accidental Groove and Burning Spear--to shame. Our list of outtakes from purely casual speech includes classics like Extraneous Stomach, Sneaky Bucket, Vomitous Swan and, my personal favorite, El Nino Lips...
...proposal to bring mandatory Christian prayer back into schools is appalling. If people want to pray, they should do it on their own time. NICHOLAS E. CLARK-SPEAR, age 13 Northford, Conn...
...many, many strangers want to meet him these days--he and Mom Soona usually begin by showing them his artwork. He draws allegorical cartoons, zany characters with deeper meanings. Later this month Spin will run a sample depicting Mary's courtroom as a circus where Fear is the central, spear-wielding character...