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...order to work together without straining their relationship, the couple, who were cast members on Saturday Night Live from 1982 to 1984 and did theater together while students at Northwestern, have set strict ground rules. They don't talk about work in front of their kids, they have a screening service block all nonemergency calls after 6 p.m., and they don't ferry work-related messages to each other. "That's about it," says Hall, looking at Louis-Dreyfus over their cappuccinos at Santa Monica's Ivy at the Shore. "Oh, and the sex has ended...
...talented than Albert Einstein, if all Humanities majors were brighter than Aristotle, if all Social scientists dwarfed Adam Smith, it would still be completely inappropriate to allow more than 25 percent or so to graduate with honors. Of course, to untangle the honors imbroglio Harvard could always just impose strict quotas on the numbers of seniors each year who can graduate with honors, but that is trimming the branches of the weed rather than cutting out its roots. Instead, it seems much more effective (not to mention more fair and even-handed) to simply lower the level of ambition...
...portraits in this show follow a clear and fairly stereotyped pattern of development. The pattern emerges from Roman low-relief sculpture and contemporary portrait medallions, some of which are also on view. In early likenesses by Pisanello, Pollaiuolo and Uccello, the subject is seen in strict profile. This gives her remoteness: she doesn't look back at you or acknowledge your gaze in any way. She is on display in all her finery, in scarlet velvet or cloth of gold, in brocade and pearls--an icon of marital success and faithfulness. (The catalog has an excellent essay by Roberta Landini...
...simple: when Palestinians lose faith in the peace process, the popularity of Hamas rises. Its fundamentalist hard core is still small, but it attracts sympathizers disillusioned by the failure of everything else. Most Palestinians do not buy Hamas' call to exterminate Israel or make their longed-for state a strict Islamic one. But most now embrace its suicide bombings as the only means they have left to resist an unremitting occupation. The question is whether that newfound popularity is just a flirtation or a permanent change of heart...
When Walker returned to California around Christmas 1999, he found his parents had separated. He saw Nana and told him that Yemen hadn't met his expectations. "They weren't as orthodox as he thought--they weren't as strict on Islam as he thought," says Nana. But to Abdul Wadood, a 20-year-old Muslim friend who also met Walker at the Mill Valley mosque, John sounded fulfilled. Through his e-mail communications, he told Wadood he felt "free" because he didn't have any material possessions. Wadood says his friend never experienced culture shock because...