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...artistic currents of Renaissance Italy. By today's standards he didn't travel far, but he did pick up (and leave) influences across the peninsula. He spent time in Perugia and in Florence, where he assisted the Venice-born painter Domenico Veneziano. Later, he was commissioned by Pope Nicolas V and Pope Pius II to paint several frescoes in the palaces of the Vatican. Much of Piero's best output - or at least the best that remains - can be found in the midsized cities of central and eastern Italy, where he was a favorite of the major noblemen who ruled...
...recently saw Freedom Writers and was amazed by how small and feminine you looked in comparison to your appearance in Million Dollar Baby. How did you get rid of all that muscle? Gerardo V. Perez, MEXICO CITY...
TOWARD THE BEGINNING OF THE COURT'S string of school-secularization cases, the most eloquent language preserving the neutral study of religion was probably Justice Robert Jackson's concurring opinion in the 1948 case McCollum v. Board of Education: "One can hardly respect the system of education that would leave the student wholly ignorant of the currents of religious thought that move the world society for ... which he is being prepared," Jackson wrote, and warned that putting all references to God off limits would leave public education "in shreds." In the 1963 Schempp decision, the exemption for secular study...
Though many of these communities may not have the same resources that we possess at Harvard, they still have something valuable to share with us. Reflecting on her experience last year in New Orleans, Ffyona V. Patel ’07 remarked, “It wasn’t us teaching them—it was them showing us what their community was like, what it used to be, and what they are striving for it to be in the future...
...political speech…I don’t see what it disrupts.” There is thus no justification for Frederick’s banner to fall under the principal’s jurisdiction. The court should rely on the precedent set by Tinker v. Des Moines School District, the 1969 Supreme Court case that famously determined that students do not leave their right to free speech “at the schoolhouse gate.” The argument that it interferes with the school’s ability to educate other students is tangential at best?...