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...Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco commissioned by Pope Julius II, was painted between 1508 and 1512. The preliminary sketches reveal Michelangelo's systematic methods. A composition of schematic figures was worked out, then in the studio his models assumed the dramatic attitudes required-poses that must have been hard to sustain, and had to be recorded rapidly. The final designs, scaled up on large pieces of paper, were transferred onto the wet plaster by dusting charcoal through the pinpricked outlines, or by cutting along them. The ceiling's highly complex scheme includes the creation of the world, the fall...
Olmert needs all the luck he can get. His biggest challenge will be to sustain support for a campaign promise that involves evacuating thousands of Israeli settlers from the West Bank, completing a wall to separate Israel from the Palestinians and establishing new borders--all within four years. Olmert's team calls the idea "convergence": it would amount to the first large-scale uprooting of Israeli citizens from the West Bank since the territory was captured in 1967. Olmert told TIME that he expects the post-convergence map to be "very close to what may be the final borderlines" between...
...General John Abizaid, head of Central Command, has been forceful in his views with appointed officials on strategy and micromanagement of the fight in Iraq--often with success. Marine Commandant General Mike Hagee steadfastly challenged plans to underfund, understaff and underequip his service as the Corps has struggled to sustain its fighting capability...
...Bourbon Street didn’t demand the kind of manual labor performed in devastated neighborhoods. Still, supporting Bourbon Street was another way for the students to sustain New Orleans. Tourism drew $5 billion of spending to New Orleans in 2004, and the Big Easy will need many of those visitors if it is to rise again...
...games have been rescheduled for Apr. 11, maintaining their 3 p.m. start time. Boston University is next up for the Crimson (10-11), as the Terriers invade the friendly confines of Soldiers Field on Thursday for a 3 p.m. doubleheader. The Crimson will look to build and sustain some momentum both this week and into the weekend. Harvard has not swept a doubleheader against the same team all year, and has won two games in a day just once. Those victories—over Florida International and Rhode Island—came on Mar. 10, the first...