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...party out of the extremist corner." Though the party will contest the elections without Haider, support last week fell to 12%, down from a high of 27% almost three years ago. What happened? The party may have been a victim of its own success. Six months after it sprang to prominence in 1999, Haider relinquished the leadership because of the uproar created by his xenophobic pronouncements. But when he returned to Carinthia, where he is governor, he left behind in Vienna a group of ministers who - together with their coalition partners, the conservative People's Party of Chancellor Wolfgang...
...French village where Monet lived and worked from 1883 to 1926 and where the painter's legendary landscaped gardens provided inspiration. One of the works on display is Breck's Garden at Giverny, painted around 1887. It is said that Monet grew tired of the American artist colony that sprang up in the village, so it was a privilege for Breck to be allowed to work in the master's garden. Painted on a summer day, the picture re.ects the essence of Impressionist art - an outdoor scene captured in dazzling sunlight and painted with brush-strokes of bright, vibrant colors...
...says Jay Berman, chairman of the I.F.P.I. "We just weren't getting paid for it." In other words, the party reconvened at a free establishment down the street. That place is not Napster or any one of the dozens of free online music-file-swapping services like Morpheus that sprang up after the Big Music labels had Napster shut down by the courts. That place is your home...
...said, took a white woman as his lover. In his late 20s he began writing novels; to finance their printing, he went door-to-door, raising funds from his white neighbors. His first self-published, semi-autobiographical novel, "The Homesteader," appeared in 1913. When black film outfits sprang up after "The Birth of a Nation," Micheaux offered his novel to the Lincoln Motion Picture Company on the condition that he also direct. Lincoln declined, Micheaux bolted and began raising money for his film as he had for his books. "The Homesteader" premiered...
...idea for Nightfall sprang into existence when Cabot House resident Brooks A. Newkirk ’03 found himself unexpectedly alone for a three-day trip over Thanksgiving Break, after his traveling companion got sick and dropped out. Left with a long bus ride during which to think, Newman decided that Harvard needed an outlet for all the creativity that wasn’t being channeled through the Visual and Environmental Sciences (VES) department. He explains: “This is a club for people who don’t study film, but who love to make films...