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...Staff writer Angela A. Sun can be reached at asun@fas.harvard.edu...
...Herodotus cites the Persian despot in the midst of the battle, a line that appears also in the highly stylized screen version: “I have so many archers that their arrows will blot out the sun...
...independence. Soares chose to study law, believing that a strong legal system was a key institution for the young nation. But all that changed last April, when the army revolt ignited clashes between Dili residents from the country's east and west. "Before the crisis, east was where the sun rose and west was where the sun set," says Soares. "Now, differences between these two groups, which I never even knew about growing up, have been politicized." In late April, Soares' home was burned down by mobs, as was his mother's vegetable stall. Today, he lives in a camp...
...rotary presses during the first half of the 19th century, printing speed doubled every few years, which meant many more and much cheaper newspapers with larger circulations, and new illustrated magazines. Scientific American, Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly all started between 1845 and 1857. The New York Sun, Herald, Tribune and Times were founded between 1833 and 1851, and in 1846 the first three helped form the Associated Press...
...harmonize, none taking precedence over the others. In “Nu de la Mer” (1966), water rises tranquilly around the legs and torso of a bather and courses in at her waist, forming a delicate liquid skirt jeweled by streaks of glimmering refractions of the midday sun that fall upon her thighs. In another well balanced print, “Soleil sur Marais” (1962), jittery zigzags of light serve as a topographical map, and mark a woman fully submerged just under the surface of the ocean. Because of the high contrast and abstraction...