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Brown visited the Harvard campus during a family vacation at the tender age of eight. A decade later, she returned during a summer college tour on the east coast. Here to see Tufts, MIT and Amherst, she visited Harvard on a whim and fell in love. “It’s a good thing I stopped by,” she says...
While Arab public opinion is running strongly against a new American war on Iraq, there are few such tender embraces of Saddam these days. Protesters stress their support for Iraq's people but, conspicuously, not its leader. Al-Jazeera, the most widely watched Arab satellite TV channel, emphasizes criticism of American policy instead of flogging Saddam's line. What apologists there are for Saddam cast him as a victim rather than a hero. Meanwhile, more Arabs are finding the courage to speak out against him. "We want to end the terrible silence and break the false image that Arabs...
...like about the divine lifestyle: a constant round of wild parties, battles, adventures and seductions. The stories gave Titian a chance to luxuriate in glowing nakedness, gleaming jewelry, strokable fur, lush lawns and tangled forests. He could also pour sincere emotion into the Christian story, producing tender madonnas or dark scenes of Jesus' torture and death. To David Jaffé, senior curator at the National Gallery, Titian's empathy was his distinctive gift. When he depicts a beautiful woman, he says, "you can feel his real admiration. If he is painting a tragic subject, like a martyrdom, he is sharing...
...faith fluctuates from dissonant cluster chords, to intricate meters based on Hindu and Greek rhythms, to sleepy chant-like melodies, to exuberant bird calls. Taylor played the complete 176-page score from memory at Columbia University’s Miller Theater to glowing praise for his precise and tender interpretation...
...Belgium before the European Court of Justice over rules that limit the use of customer loyalty cards, which enable consumers to accumulate points when making purchases and then exchange them for free products. (Such cards are legal elsewhere.) Some retailers are also fighting back. When the euro became legal tender at the beginning of last year, the clothing-store chain C&A, fearing chaos at its tills, gave a 20% discount to German shoppers who paid with credit or debit cards instead of cash for the first four days. German authorities said the discount breached unfair trading laws...