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Slade recognizes the fraternity’s Christian past. When Sigma Chi was founded in 1855, the cross was immediately adopted as its symbol, with the accompanying motto, In Hoc Signo Vinces—in this sign you will conquer. Both the symbol and the phrase were taken from a legend about Constantine, the first Christian emperor of Rome, who supposedly saw a cross in the sky before going to battle...
...sweet government deal helped him launch his private media empire. Sixteen months after he moved into the Prime Minister's office, Berlusconi quietly remains Italy's wealthiest man. But long before Berlusconi joined the political fray, Giovanni Agnelli, the patriarch of the Fiat car dynasty, was a subtler symbol of Italy's unique brand of state-stewarded capitalism. Praised around the world as the man who brought Italian industry into the big leagues in the 1960s and 1970s with mass production of simple but stylish automobiles, Agnelli, now 81, has also been known at home to push through special legislation...
...began moving toward war with Iraq this past summer, Bush and Chavez were hardly amigos. In fact, Chavez lost any chance of winning a chummy nickname from Bush two years ago when, during a visit to Iraq, he called Saddam Hussein "my brother." Chavez's red beret - the symbol of his "revolution," which he wears with the Yanqui-baiting swagger of Che Guevara - didn't help. Nor does the way Chavez taunts his U.S.-friendly opposition, which nearly toppled him last April in a coup, an uprising Chavez supporters accuse the Bush Administration of covertly encouraging (a charge the White...
...trooper, nearing 69, knew his war. In the Map Room in May 1943, Churchill asked Elsey about news from the submarine battle going on under the Atlantic. Elsey had just finished updating the map. "I just removed three black pins," the symbol for German subs, he told Churchill, who astonished the young American by jumping up and down and shouting, "We've got him! We've got him! We've got him!" The sinkings came about because the Allies had cracked the German secret code. Some experts would later agree the turning point in the war came...
...teaching, Ellis tries to emphasize the fact that “there’s both a contradiction and a sympathy between representing something as a symbol and perceiving it in the world.” His large, abstract paintings blend geometry with hints of natural form just beyond recognition. In an untitled work from 2000, Ellis plays with the colors and repetitive rectangles iconic of Piet Mondrian. Strict, opaque rectangles become wavy, transparent lines, black shows through beneath white, and the canvas retains brush strokes, paint drips and slips of the palette knife as a residue of the artist?...