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When the United Nations Security Council meets, it's usually to try to sort out some regional trouble spot - a war between countries, a looming military threat. On Monday, they met to discuss a war of sorts. Certainly there have been a lot of casualties - 2 million dead in 1998. But this wasn't the usual Security Council fare; instead, it was about AIDS, and in particular the need for funding, education and medicine in African nations devastated by the AIDS epidemic...
...taste changed and developed; in due course he would acquire a number of Cezannes, including the mighty Self-Portrait of 1878-80, solid as a Provencal mountain, which he perceived to be a sort of midpoint between El Greco and Picasso. In the same way, his early dislike of Matisse didn't stop him from eventually buying one of the greatest and harshest of all Matisses, the Studio, Quai St.-Michel...
...meals. The only nutritional theory I ever heard from my father was that you couldn't gain more weight from eating food than the food itself weighed--so a person devouring a pound of particularly rich chocolate couldn't put on more than 1 lb. That sort of theorizing runs in the family and may be one of our problems. When I began to weigh myself regularly during a particularly grim January some years ago, I proposed an industry standard that allowed subtracting 14 lbs. for clothing...