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To: epicure who wrote (234632)	6/29/2007 11:31:39 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I didn't know you watched the BBC nightly. Happy to know that. Don't get excited. What BBC says and what Nadine "hears" aren't necessarily the same thing. I believe we've all seen examples of that phenomena We could look at the BBC website for examples of liberal biased headlines.... US court admits Guantanamo cases Canada natives in day of protests US split over school race verdict Tribal arrests at US reservation Five US soldiers killed in Iraq Bush immigration plan dashed Colombia rebels 'killed hostages' Charity attacks rush for biofuels Chavez vows to deepen Russia ties news.bbc.co.uk

To: epicure who wrote (234632)	6/29/2007 12:17:18 PM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Caravaggio From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. He is commonly placed in the Baroque school, of which he was the first great representative. Caravaggio was considered enigmatic, fascinating, rebellious, and dangerous. He burst upon the Rome art scene in 1600, and thereafter never lacked for commissions or patrons, yet handled his success atrociously. An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle some three years previously, tells how "after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him."[1] In 1606 he killed a young man in a brawl and fled from Rome with a price on his head. In Malta in 1608 he was involved in another brawl, and yet another in Naples in 1609, possibly a deliberate attempt on his life by unidentified enemies. By the next year, after a career of little more than a decade, he was dead. Huge new churches and palazzi were being built in Rome in the decades of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and paintings were needed to fill them. The Counter-Reformation Church searched for authentic religious art with which to counter the threat of Protestantism, and for this task the artificial conventions of Mannerism, which had ruled art for almost a century, no longer seemed adequate. Caravaggio's novelty was a radical naturalism which combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, approach to chiaroscuro, the use of light and shadow. Famous and extremely influential while he lived, Caravaggio was almost entirely forgotten in the centuries after his death, and it was only in the 20th century that his importance to the development of Western art was rediscovered. Yet despite this his influence on the common style which eventually emerged from the ruins of Mannerism, the new Baroque, was profound. Andre Berne-Joffroy, Paul Valéry’s secretary, said of him: "What begins in the work of Caravaggio is, quite simply, modern painting."[2

To: epicure who wrote (234632)	6/29/2007 1:41:38 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I didn't know you watched the BBC nightly. Happy to know that. I listen to NPR. The headline on the SCOTUS decision was word for word because I was typing it as the news was on. They didn't quite dare to say "Right Thinking Politicians Everywhere Denounce this Horrible Decision" but they came as close as they could. Just think about the implications of reporting ANY Supreme Court decision by saying "Politicians across the USA denounce the new decision". Is that your idea of objective journalism? How could an editorial stance be more obvious than that?