Word: semis
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...slyly minimal photographs, Clergue most creatively celebrates the female form, for which the plain rigidity of the inorganic world is a foil. Here, it is the women who are strong, not the city. Also receiving their fair share of attention in the main gallery are Clergue’s semi-abstractions of salt flats, marshes, and coastal areas. The arid earth in “Craquelures de Sel” resembles Aaron Siskind’s peeling posters, and the undulating reflections of reeds in “Roseaux, Le Marais d’Arles” hearken back...
Here at Harvard, the Lampoon, a certain semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, has its own vaunted prank tradition. Although of late its pranks are rare, small in scope, and bereft of any real ingenuity, in its heyday members were responsible for a number of shrewdly cunning acts of civil disobedience...
...treated for frostbite, Grant admitted to strangling his wife and dismembering her body at his family's tool-and-die shop. Grant then put several pieces of his wife in garbage bags, scattering them in a wooded section of parkland close to the family home in a semi-rural area laced with muddy dirt road and snow-covered fields more than 40 miles north of the center of Detroit...
...course, breaking into homes with overwhelming force is tremendously exciting. Kraska says that "these elite units are highly culturally appealing to certain sections of the police community. They like it, they enjoy it […] The chance to strap on a vest, grab a semi-automatic weapon and go out on a mission is […] an exciting reason to join." Emphasizing this glamorous appeal, the LAPD’s recruiting video presents a day in the life of a cop: Catching robbers, rescuing hostages, and taking on gun-toting kidnappers with air support and a SWAT team...
Syria wants more than bromides for its openness. The humanitarian crisis in Iraq could be the issue that brings Syria out of international isolation and into semi-respectability. Although the Bush Administration has long resisted diplomatic engagement with Syria, cracks are appearing. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has authorized the U.S. embassy in Damascus to talk with Syrian officials as long as their discussions are limited to the refugee crisis. Syrian officials say their willingness to take in so many refugees has helped stabilize the region. Now they want something in return: a softer U.S. line on Syrian involvement...