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...those reasons and for the endless ambiguities of his watercolors and canvases, he remains the 20th century Realist who still looks resolutely modern to us. And charming at the same time, though it's an irony that his paintings of old houses in Maine or on Cape Cod should strike us that way. When they first appeared, they were considered triumphs over the ugliness and banality of the houses themselves. Gilded Age piles with mansard roofs or carpentered scrollwork were deeply out of fashion in the 1920s, when Hopper started seeking them out. In the same way, when he painted...
Coalition members, including those participating in a hunger strike to pressure the University to intervene in the negotiations between AlliedBarton and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 615, have repeatedly criticized both Harvard and AlliedBarton for being unresponsive to their demands...
...students, five who are participating in the hunger strike, met Wednesday with Murphy...
...Once the two ?extremes? dominated the mainstream, the only way to an agreement was to get them to strike the deal. Now that they have, the very fact that Paisley and McGuinness have been so tough with each other in the past means that that only marginal elements reject the new deal...
...Spain, Italy, and now in a dramatic way, in Mexico. Such open talk of "excommunication" was hardly a recipe for a soft landing on Benedict's first trip to Latin America, home to half the world's billion Catholics. Still, the 80-year-old Pope tried to strike positive notes through the rest of the surprisingly freewheeling encounter with the 70 or so reporters on board. He broke into a smile when a Brazilian reporter wondered if the German Pope has overlooked Latin America in the first two years of his papacy. "I love Latin America very much," Benedict said...