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While the famed Spanish artist sometimes worked in black and white, dining services chefs strive every night to balance the vibrant hues of, say, savory baked tofu against the harsh monochromes of the pasta...
...teenagers Slaby writes about share an inability to convey to others the depth and quality of their suffering. Their best efforts to describe what they are enduring may be found in journals or, most tragically, suicide notes. "I can't tolerate myself anymore," writes Sarah, once a vibrant college student. Writes David: "My mind is no longer my own, it seems...
Genovese's broadside, to some European intellectuals, is merely one new entry in an old and familiar debate that has been particularly vibrant in France. The 1973 publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago was a critical event for the French left. His searing expose of the vast Soviet prison-camp system, which sold 600,000 copies in France in less than a year, inspired a cadre of ex-radicals eventually known as "The New Philosophers" to issue its own critiques of communism. In Barbarism with a Human Face, for example, Bernard-Henri Levy demanded that French radicals confront...
...spite of this gerontocracy, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remains vibrant. Its sedulous missionary work has made what seemed to be a quintessentially American faith extraordinarily successful both at home and overseas. The church has nearly 9 million members, up from 5.6 million in 1984. Though a slight majority (4.6 million) live in the U.S. and Canada, the Mormon Church's biggest success story of the past decade is Latin America, where it claims 2.7 million believers. "One of the major themes of 20th century Mormonism has been accommodation," says Richard Bushman, a professor of history...
...second, it was a clear departure from the style of the old coach. Gone were the sometimes pedantic sermons of the aging Restic, and in were the Leno-like one-liners of a young, vibrant coach on the rise...