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Columns share an author’s personal perspective.*****“Disarmament … is a continuing imperative.” That public statement is not from an ideologue of the political left, but by outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address to the nation, delivered six decades ago as he prepared to leave office. President Joe Biden has returned arms control negotiations with Russia to status as a top policy priority. He seeks a five-year extension

  Tuesday Jan 26, 2021 at 3:14 PM Jan 26, 2021 at 3:15 PM Columns share an author’s personal perspective. ***** “Disarmament … is a continuing imperative.” That public statement is not from an ideologue of the political left, but by outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address to the nation, delivered six decades ago as he prepared to leave office. President Joe Biden has returned arms control negotiations with Russia to status as a top policy...

Share via Shortlink Thor Chairman Joe Sitt, Stefano Ricci CEO Niccolo Ricci and the Miami store. (Getty, Thor, Miami Design District)   A mortgage trustee is suing affiliates of Thor Equities and fashion house Stefano Ricci, as well as Thor Chairman Joe Sitt, over an alleged unpaid loan on a Miami Design District property, with the plaintiff seeking foreclosure or receivership. At issue is $17 million in an unpaid loan by the Thor affiliate, according to documents filed in Miami-Dade C...

Gustave Doré, in full Paul-Gustave Doré, (born January 6, 1832, Strasbourg, France—died January 23, 1883, Paris), French printmaker, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19th century, whose exuberant and bizarre fantasy created vast dreamlike scenes widely emulated by Romantic academicians. In 1847 he went to Paris, and from 1848 to 1851 he produced weekly lithographic caricatures for the Journal pour Rire and several albums of lithographs (1847–54). Hi...

Robert Louis Stevenson and the Saranac Connection Robert Louis Stevenson at Baker’s with cigarette and skates — a diorama by Dwight Franklin. “Walking over the fields, with a stick in his hand and his skates thrown over his shoulders, he looked and seemed his happiest.” — Bertha Baker, Saranac Lake Behind glass in Robert Louis Stevenson’s former study at Baker’s in Saranac Lake lies a pair of very old and worn ice skates, the very ones used by the author of “The Master of...

Holocaust and Genocide Studies 17.1 (2003) 62-88 The Holocaust and American Public Memory, 1945-1960 San Diego State University Abstract: Until the 1960s, many scholars assert, most Americans awareness of the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or inaccurate representations. Yet the extermination of the Jews was remembered in significant ways, this article posits, through World War II accounts, the Nuremberg trials, philosophical works, comparisons with Soviet totalitarianism, Christian an...

  A member of the Qatari royal family has purchased a Flatiron retail building from Thor Equities for $40 million. Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani purchased the 17,600-square-foot-property at 164 Fifth Avenue from Joe Sitt’s firm at $2,272 per square foot, records show. The five-story building is fully leased to Alo Yoga and sits between 21st and 22nd streets. Alo Yoga has 15 years left on its lease. The site is also home to Sutra, a new restaurant led by celebrity chef Matthew Kenney foc...

Guest Contributor ABSTRACT: Jesus Christ, the God-man, is the central glory of the Christian faith. Yet the very fact that he is both God and man has become the occasion of many misunderstandings and distortions, even among sincere Christians. Some speak as if he were not fully human; others as if he were not fully divine; still others as if he is no longer both God and man. Christians throughout the centuries have taken care to correct such common errors — not because they enjoyed splitti...

hes born in 1899, just as the new centurys about to begin, and hes of age to come under fire in world war i, to experience the growth of american literary modernism in paris, he goes to the spanish civil war, hes back under fire in world war ii and as well as being a wonderful writer of fiction, hes also a journalist. hes travelling the globe to the greco-turkish war, hes a citizen of the world. >> how did he get here to key west? >> he arrived he ever in the year 1928. he was returnin...