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Paintings depicting Osiris’ corpse serve as the first subcategory of the exhibit.These paintings are distinguished by their uniformly dark color scheme, dominated by shadows and feelings of despair and hopelessness. Most are portraits of Isis grieving over Osiris’ body, or over his skull alone. The color scheme complements the combination of mourning and anger inherent in this theme. The backgrounds of these paintings are black skies shot through with angry red accents. The skin tones of the figures are also darker than those in depicted in the other works displayed, created from a mixture of reds...
...legitimate, Strauss-Kahn faces trial in May on charges of backdating documents to prove his innocence in the case. Then last September Strauss-Kahn watched as a surreal scandal plaguing conservatives turned against him. The affair involved a videotaped confession by a since-deceased operative detailing an illegal financing scheme in the early 1980s and '90s allegedly run by President Jacques Chirac's conservative Rally for the Republic - and implicating Chirac personally. Battered conservatives then watched gleefully as attention turned to Strauss-Kahn, who admitted that he'd been given a copy of the tape, presumably...
...with what was happening in the securities industry [BUSINESS, March 26]. Most stocks are little more than overvalued gambling chips that do nothing for the stockholder unless he can sell them to another sucker for a price higher than he paid. He's like a victim in a pyramid scheme. The guys who are really raking it in are the corporate CEOs and their colleagues. MANI DELI Toronto...
...pagers, a fax line, a modem line and five phone lines in their house. Granted, it might be a bit excessive to have more phone numbers than limbs, but the real problem is that telephone companies waste the phone numbers that are allocated to them by an archaic blocking scheme, dating back more than six decades, that wastes numbers on sparsely-populated rural areas...
Anyone who has actually lost money in the scheme should contact the Secret Service at (202) 406-5850, or fax a copy of the fraudulent e-mail...