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...right thing to do for our employees. We want all of our associates to feel they are valued and treated with respect--no exceptions. " MONA WILLIAMS, Wal-Mart vice president of communications, on the company's decision to include gays and lesbians in its antidiscrimination policy...
...cocoa-colored skin and wavy white hair that seems to uncoil as the humid Kerala day wears on. The architecture that surrounds him is classically Keralite: the roof is low-slung and pyramidal, and the tiles are red terra-cotta. Egyptian hieroglyphics hang near a miniature print of the Mona Lisa; a pair of Japanese paintings face off against a profile of Lenin. They're mementos of the director's many trips around the global film-festival circuit, reminders that Adoor's movies, like his home, have a local heart but an international soul...
...easy task. Winter and her colleagues say the artifacts—including renowned pieces such as the Warka Vase and the so-called “Mona Lisa of Nimrud”—are likely to become hot items on the black market...
...saying, Idealize as much as you want, but shun denial. The necessary other side of the ideal beauty of Leonardo's Mona Lisa or Cecilia Gallerani was the ugliness of his grotesqueries--an ugliness that disintegrates all possibility of desire and has something mockingly demonic, not just medical, about it. To see his grotesques as the mere play of a mind tinged with sadism is to misunderstand them. They are an essential part of the impulse that turned Leonardo toward an attachment to beauty as a kind of saving principle...
...example, British academic Mona Baker dismissed two Israeli academics from the editorial boards of her journals last summer. Her only reason was their nationality. In another instance, the journal Science editorialized over the summer on the unacceptability of researchers refusing to share scientific materials with Israeli colleagues. By convention, scientists must honor requests for materials to allow others to reproduce their work. Science editor Donald Kennedy wrote that his journal would “continue to insist that authors have an obligation to share material.” The editorial was prompted by a researcher refusing to share materials with...