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...slightly raised like a Guido Reni saint as he toys with a gold chain. The other end of the chain is attached to a tame flying squirrel nibbling a nut. Everything in the painting is a show of skill in illusion: the squirrel's pelt, the reflections and the thread of white highlight on the mahogany tabletop, the glass of water (to show how well he could do transparency), the boy's fresh, young skin...
...winter means a decision to withdraw must be made in the next month. But weather is only one of many prospective problems. All the armed factions -- Bosnian, Croat and Serb -- have attacked the peacekeepers in the past, and could assault the retreating troops. The two-lane roads thread through mountains, giving an edge to those seeking to frustrate the pullout. Masses of refugees, fearing slaughter once the U.N. forces leave, would also hamper an operation. "The Muslims know that once the pullout is over, genocide is just around the corner," a Pentagon official says. "Hundreds of thousands will...
...decade later, after a stint at the Washington Star, Stacks was news editor of our Washington bureau during the Watergate investigation. His colleagues of those days remember his savvy and energy with awe. "He had the ability to track every twist of the story without losing the thread,'' says contributor Bonnie Angelo. "He knew what was major right away...
...Core's second goal, and perhaps the one which students need the most help achieving, is the development of a unique and useful approach to learning. Any such unifying thread has long since disappeared from the Core. Do Science A and Historical Study B professors meet with each other to coordinate their teaching methods? never. What little oversight the Committee on the core Program (CCP) offers is rarely directed to amalgamating methods in the search for knowledge...
Broken homes are the common thread that binds the lives of drifters. An accident or an illness can push someone over the brink. Wes Moreland, living in a $125-a-week room at the El Rio Motel in Bullhead City since March, says his life fell apart after a near fatal car accident in 1984. A onetime maintenance man in Thornton, Colorado, he lost three years of work, 64 lbs., and "my wife felt I wasn't the handsome young man she married." Three years ago, after his wife divorced him and got their $140,000 home and custody...