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Schaffer made a swift transition to art, perhaps eased by his exposure to it at a young age. His mother was a middle school art teacher, and familiarized Schaffer with Renoir, Manet, and Cezanne. Schaffer says he came to view art quite narrowly, as a combination of landscapes and portraits, and decided to pursue athletics...
...swift blow to an initiative aimed at shaking up one of the stalwarts of the Harvard College curriculum, the Committee on Undergraduate Education in Economics voted down a proposal Tuesday for an alternative to the department’s introductory economics course...
...Anglican vicar. But his sincere faith forged a bond with a believing President and made Blair more receptive than most nonbelieving Europeans to the clear moral tone in the White House. What soldered the bond was the horror of Sept. 11. Blair's supreme political gift is a swift, intuitive, unerring sense of the public mood. He cemented his hold on the British public by his poignant response to the death of Princess Diana. And he felt, in visiting America in the days after the massacre, that the country had changed deeply. He shared America's grief and rage, recognized...
...Making war to bring peace is a hard sell, especially when TV images provide stark reminders of the real human costs of that conflict. What's more, though the war in Iraq is still in its early stages, the inability of the U.S. and British forces to deliver a swift victory?and the early success militiamen have had in temporarily sidetracking the march to Baghdad?is chipping away at the aura of American military invincibility. It has happened before, in Somalia in 1993 for example, but never was there this level of round-the-clock coverage of each roadblock...
...homefront, the entertainment industry has responded, in a swift havoc of pushing back movie releases that now seem tacky and frivolous, while fast-forwarding others, searching for the politically-neutral feel-good movie/cash cow that everyone needs. Even the Oscars went on, with 33 million viewers grateful for the opportunity to mindlessly watch Hollywood pat itself on the back for four hours in subdued dresses (J. Lo wore a toga), with the usual $22,000 dollar-gift basket presenters, while the local news station interspersed the broadcast with announcements asking residents to donate sunscreen to the troops. At least...