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...over the old boys. He argued that CG actually frees artists "to produce movies of extraordinarily different styles. There are limitations in hand drawn. In CG you can do things that are much more complicated." But some still thought the very notion of a change sacrilegious. To abandon the grand old style for 3-D would be like tearing down Chartres to put up a condo...
...problem is that the U.S. has become captive to the government it helped create. Baghdad knows Washington is not going to withdraw troops or decrease aid because the stakes of failure in Iraq are too high for the United States to abandon it prematurely. So there aren't many levers left to the Americans to influence the Iraqis. And without that influence, the Shi'ites and Kurds are free to engage in zero-sum politics, such as the constitutional process where there was little effort to accommodate Sunnis, even though America deemed Sunni inclusion crucial to undermining the insurgency...
...inside, Laurie began to feel angry and violated. Then she saw an envelope. It was a letter from an older woman who lived across the street. In the note she apologized profusely for entering the apartment and for having used the restroom. She said she was forced to abandon her place after the storm and swim in six feet of water to reach higher ground. When rescuers found her, she fed the cats and left to be transported to a location near the Superdome, where she could swim and wade to safety...
...Battle of New Orleans may yet be a cataclysmic event that scuttles Bush's political agenda. One can imagine how the reconstruction of an American city will put unbearable pressure on him to pull out of Iraq or abandon his partial privatization of Social Security. And it may yet emerge that the federal response to Katrina was even worse than it seemed, making the questions about pre-9/11 intelligence pale by comparison. Democrats harbor such fantasies. But Bush's career is all about people underestimating him and it would be a mistake to do so this time...
...debate continues. When the new MOMA opened, it chose to abandon themes and present its painting and sculpture collections in a mainly chronological way. Some critics complained that the new layout was disappointingly conservative, more mausoleum than museum. "One of the lessons of 'ModernStarts' was the pleasure of seeing multiple options emerging more or less simultaneously in early Modernism," says John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture. "But another was the loss of seeing the integrity and the unfolding of individual achievements and artistic movements." As for Tate Modern, it is planning to rehang its entire permanent collection next...