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...trading company that once operated in Sierra Leone. Puryear connects the piece to ideas about cultural contact, about the French and Africans colliding in the place where history mingled them. I couldn't help thinking of Puryear himself, the artist venturing into the world in the mask we all wear sometimes and carrying his gifts and burdens before him. He might object. But as I said before, he's not a man to be understood too quickly. Not by us. Maybe not even by himself...
...dropped to 42 this year, its lowest level in more than a decade, we cannot let the moratorium distract us from the larger issues at stake. Although lethal injection is less gruesome than other methods of execution, it is no less brutal. Research indicates that the anesthetic can wear off, while another drug keeps the condemned paralyzed, thus giving the illusion of serenity, underscored with massive unseen pain. The drugs are known to take anywhere between seven minutes to two hours to be effective, and finding a suitable vein is often a long, torturous ordeal. It is stupefying to fathom...
...President Drew G. Faust’s installation last month, Bhabha shielded himself from the rain with a pink-and-red umbrella decorated with flower blossoms. When asked what fashion myth about academics he would like to dispel, Bhabha told the Globe: “That they always wear baggy tweed jackets. Or shapeless jeans...
...wear very simple clothes and I don’t think that I’m very edgy and fashion forward, but I do like to take my simple clothes and elevate it into something classic,” she said...
...foam-lined helmets, Xenith’s helmet is lined with 18 “Aware-Flow” shock absorbers, which release air upon impact and compress more completely than foam, minimizing impact force. Laboratory tests also reveal that the disks are sturdy and show few signs of wear after impact, according to the company’s Web site. As a football player, Ferrara had an impressive record. Despite a serious ACL tear in his junior year, the quarterback threw for over 3,000 yards and was third on the all-time passing yards list when he graduated...