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Gradually, the goddess of the palazzo comes closer. She turns toward you in three-quarters view, in imitation of Flemish painting. (There had been a big vogue in Florence for artists like Hans Memling and Petrus Christus.) This shift is just beginning in Botticelli's portrait of Simonetta Vespucci, but her pearl-encrusted beauty still has the idealized remoteness of myth. From the turn toward the viewer's eye would be born the modern idea of portraiture as the making of a "speaking likeness"--speaking, that is, to a viewer, rather than holding itself aloof. But absolute truth to nature...
...procedure by which a defendant can challenge a wrongful conviction. In World War II, Franklin Roosevelt interned 120,000 Japanese Americans and tried accused German saboteurs in military courts. The Bush Administration is leaning on these historical precedents in saying the traditional balance between security and freedom needs to shift, at least in the short term. "We're an open society," President Bush declared last week...
Bonner and Long say they want to shift the shuttle schedule from the Quad so that busses leave at five minutes to every hour instead of on every hour. The pair also says they would like to create an on campus video store and more safe crosswalks...
Most importantly, Gusmorino’s term has seen a significant shift in the way the council is treated by the administration, the council’s most important audience. Though its credibility had often been compromised in previous administrations, in this past year the council made significant strides towards becoming an effective student voice in shaping University decisions. The decision to rely on the council in selecting student representatives to the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies was heartening. So were the unusually frequent visits to council meetings by many administrators, including President Lawrence H. Summers, which demonstrated...
...hand, Jenn will single-handedly change the way TV, print and film functions. Her big personality will come in handy; people listen to her. They can’t help it. Jenn, besides being persuasive as hell, had an all-encompassing take on the future of FM, which will shift into a global view of the media world. Her voice will impact the smallest story and the largest feature because, overall, her sense of style is impeccable. This woman knows what’s right and knows what’s wrong—her incredible understanding of relationships...