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...only Brown has an overall negative rating among the state's voters. His constant attacks on his rivals as prisoners of the old politics make him seem like a single-issue Ishmael. Though his relatively high name recognition allows him to score well in national polls, that edge is absent in New Hampshire, where the other candidates are becoming known. His low-budget campaign appears to be getting nowhere in this state, so he is investing more of his time elsewhere...
Meanwhile Algeria's military men gambled on nostalgia. By bringing Boudiaf aboard, they hoped to create an aura of historical legitimacy. But Boudiaf, 72, is hardly a household name now. He has been absent from Algeria for the past 28 years, since he fled to Morocco after refusing to serve as the puppet President of an army-controlled government. With nearly 75% of Algeria's 26 million people under age 30, it is questionable whether young voters will grasp the symbolism...
...show is the first Davis retrospective in a quarter of a century. For the younger half of the museum public, it should be an eye opener, because Davis' work testifies -- as art historian Diane Kelder says in her catalog introduction -- to an "aesthetic continuity and intellectual integrity . . . sadly absent from the cynical eclecticism and self-aggrandizement that has characterized much American painting in recent years...
This escalation is a key part of the history of America's involvement in Vietnam, but it is conspicuously absent from...
...hammer- and-sickle flag is lowered over the Kremlin, giving way to Russia's white- blue- and-red banner, and Gorbachev finally steps down as Soviet President. Both might happen momentarily. Meeting Saturday in the Kazakh capital of Alma- Ata, presidents of 11 former Soviet republics -- only Georgia was absent -- signed documents formally creating a Commonwealth of Independent States to succeed the U.S.S.R. and settled some of the last details. For example, they agreed to form a military council to exercise unified control of the armed services and to have Russia take over the Soviet seat on the United Nations...