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...Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bellevue, 1882-85, where it appears almost shyly on the left of a tender, early springtime landscape, all new green, traversed by an aqueduct (sign of the ancient Roman roots of Provence) and crossed by a pale road whose kinks are tied to the branch forms of the pine that rises in the foreground to bisect the canvas...
...mall is built on the site of the original Lechmere department store, a branch of which is still found at CambridgeSide. There was also a liquor store and a casket company. The three buildings, Sigel says, formed the heart of pre-renewal East Cambridge...
...criticism of his handling of the 1991 Tailhook sex-harassment episode. As the first enlisted man ever to rise to the Navy's top spot, Boorda was known, and widely liked, as a "sailor's sailor," and he set about restoring ethical standards and pride to the troubled service branch...
Zyuganov left Mymrino for the army and then went to Oryol, the regional capital, to study mathematics at the Oryol Pedagogical Institute, where he set himself on a fast track to a party career by leading both the student union and the local branch of the Komsomol Communist youth organization. Svetlana Voronina, a former classmate, remembers him as a voracious reader. ''Every book I bought on trips to Moscow, he wanted to read," she says. One Zyuganov favorite was a book titled Raising Children in the Atheist Manner. Mindful of his nationalist supporters, for whom the Orthodox Church is inextricably...
...resolutely oppose Lee, "who masks separatist activities with calls for reunification." Lee's conditions for his visit, that he come as a democratically elected leader, were rejected. "The Chinese see nothing new in this speech," says TIME Beijing Correspondent Mia Turner. "Lee's speech is certainly not an olive branch of peace to Beijing. Lee's offer to visit, instead of kowtowing to the government, would bring him a certain amount of prestige as the Taiwanese emissary. Beijing is not interested in legitimizing Lee to that extent, since it is still very distrustful of him." Terence Nelan