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...gets the sense that this experimentation is both very disciplined and very thorough, and it was no doubt thanks to this extended research that Stella was able to arrive at the elegant simplicity of the black paintings. They represent the same combination of stripes and rectangles reduced to a bare minimum; the stripes and the background are created simultaneously through the application of only one color, and the rectangular element becomes the canvas itself and so does not need to be painted...
...with the same tallies, and Bardin sent out an e-mail late Saturday night announcing the results. “It was a long process, longer than we would have hoped,” said Bardin. “But I’m happy to have had a thorough and accurate election.” Two hundred and ten out of 338 Currier residents voted in the last round of elections, almost two-thirds of the house. Candidates attributed the high voter turnout to a strong sense of community in the House. In his candidacy statement, Cullen vowed...
...data that is subject to conscious or unconscious bias. Simon correctly faults Heritage’s numbers for comparing apples and oranges—the average income of recruits’ families versus the average income of all families, instead of just families with recruiting-age children. A more thorough deconstruction is needed however, not just of the Heritage study but of whether the United States military reflects a just distribution of the shared responsibility for national defense. For example, instead of looking at averages or medians, one could seek to establish whether there is a relatively strong or weak...
...With the firm backing of the Corporation and similar encouragement from the veteran Gergen, Summers was in no rush to yield to the growing calls for a more thorough apology, the sources said. And he gave little to no consideration to the requests for a transcript of his remarks on women in science...
...coincidence that consumption is highest in the south of India, which has in recent years seen some of the fastest economic growth and the most thorough dispersion of wealth to villages and small cities. The southern state of Kerala, not far from Madras, is full of billboards advertising gold jewelry. At most local weddings, the bride is expected to turn up covered in gold necklaces, bangles, and earrings. Ambika Menon, a Kerala social worker, says that the gold obsession is a manifestation of change. New money is breaking down old hierarchies and caste distinctions. "Putting gold on your daughter...