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...which Sheeler had in mind the broken crockery of Cubism or the elastic women of Matisse are pretty plain. These are also loving pictures, so long as you keep in mind how often one brings to a lover's interesting body the problems of estrangement, awe, fear of death, utmost tenderness and ruthless curiosity--all things he brought to Katharine's. Are they also beautiful? Absolutely...
...promotion that favors skillful politician-administrators. Yet the final list of the Party leadership was settled against the backdrop of a bitter power struggle comprising backroom lobbying and furtive corruption investigations that continued till the last possible moment. Modern information technology and a windy propaganda blitz coexist with the utmost secrecy about everything that matters: who will be elected to lead the country, how they got where they are, and what they stand...
Hopefully the success and heightened interest in freshman seminars will encourage individual departments to increase the number of upperclass seminars. The type of in-depth learning that takes place in a small, intimate setting is of the utmost benefit to undergraduates, and an increase in these offerings will augment the academic career of any Harvard student...
...also by the Europeans. It remains to be seen whether Baghdad will seek to continue preventing inspections of Saddam's palaces and other politically sensitive sites, or to blacklist inspectors believed to be spying for the U.S. Russia and Iraq's Arab neighbors will likely be doing their utmost to persuade Saddam that he has no alternative but to swallow whatever the UN demands. The Iraqi leader's own instinct will to use any discord between the U.S. and its allies to push back and play for time. And President Bush will be waiting - and not necessarily patiently - for Saddam...
...weapons of mass destruction. But whereas the hawks in Washington may have been hoping that Saddam makes their day by rejecting any such ultimatum, most of the allies that signed on to the U.S. position at the UN in recent days have clearly been doing their utmost to persuade Saddam to submit. Even Britain, Washington's closest ally on Iraq, appeared to favor a peaceful resolution. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Monday that there was "wide consensus ? about the need for resolute action to be taken against Iraq - hopefully by peaceful means - to ensure their compliance with the will...