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From TNR, a review of History of the Art of Antiquity (Texts & Documents) by Johann Winckelmann; and a look at how Moses became an American icon. A review of Greek Architecture and its Sculpture by Ian Jenkins. A review of Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia by Gary S. Meltzer. A review of Spartacus: Film and History. Between Riddle and Revelation: A review of Dante: the Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man by Barbara Reynolds. Building Democracy: A review of Architecture of Democracy: American Architecture and the Legacy of the Revolution, by Allan Greenberg. A review of God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill. Mussolini spared no effort in transforming Rome into the seat of his empire, turning its architecture into the embodiment of fascism’s muscular, overblown ideals.

Does all this so-called social networking crap make you wish people would stop being so fucking friendly? Do you long to disconnect? No Social Networking which is here to fulfill your need for greater social isolation. The Facebook economy: The No. 2 social network is fast evolving into a new kind of software platform - and the race is on to figure out how to turn users' every move into dollars for enterprising developers. Blogs To You! Kevin Anderson explains the difference between old-school journalism and new-school blogging. Proof of an afterlife: The blog of a dead woman lives on, perhaps redefining the nature of mourning, the nature of love. A small but growing number of parents are getting domain names for their young kids, long before they can do more than peck aimlessly at a keyboard. It turns out that the people who are hiding behind anonymity online for nefarious or selfish reasons are not little guys in pajamas but the very bastions of accountability that haters of the Web have deified.