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Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac, Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden and Judith's defeat of the Assyrian army may not have much in common. But in Divine Mirrors: The Madonna Unveiled, curated by Melissa Katz at the Davis Museum at Wellesley, they do. The exhibit combines works of art on these subjects with a text rich in Biblical reference and historical detail to show changing perceptions of the Virgin Mary in different cultures over the past nine centuries...
...serve to emphasize by contrast Mary's role as a mother figure and source of strength to those in need. "Judith and Holofernes," a mid-16th-century oil painting, shows Judith holding the severed head of Holofernes, the general whose army she has just defeated. A marble statue of Eve, created by Auguste Rodin in 1899, shows Eve with arms wrapped around her body and head bent down in shame. Contrast this image of a woman whose weakness instigated the fall of mankind with Mary's role as a redeemer through the birth of Christ...
Last Christmas Eve, a brawl erupted in the CambridgeSide Galleria parking garage. Police still don't know what led the two groups involved to begin fighting, but the episode ended when Gary M. Chatelain, 20, of Roslindale, Mass., was shot and killed (please see sidebar...
First, the crime capped a year of increased violence at CambridgeSide, including fistfights, assaults and robberies--including a robbery that happened earlier that Christmas Eve. Two different gang-related brawls at the mall a year ago led to the arrest of a dozen Boston youths...
...American air defenses. The base commander told Reagan that from there, the military could track an incoming nuclear missile but could do nothing to stop it. Fitzgerald writes: "[The story] resonates with Biblical and mythological overtones... Reagan can be seen as the innocent, the American Everyman who on the eve of his election must undergo initiation into the terrible secrets of power. Led into the 'granite core' of a mountain - into the innermost sanctum of esoteric knowledge - he looks for the first time upon the horror that scientists and their masters have created for the country and for humankind...