Word: accountants
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...person of feeling, quipped Oscar Wilde, could read Dickens' account of the death of Little Nell without laughing. The same is true of the fall of contemporary art auctions. Last week, once again, Sotheby's and Christie's began their big spring sales of newish art. In the palmy days of the market boom, before the great flopperoola of 1990, these used to be attended with bated breath as a spectacle of utterly crazed consumption. Watch the chap from the Mountain Turtle Gallery in Japan bid half a million dollars for a Brice Marden drawing! Don't miss the sight...
...biographer of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, I urge strong caution in accepting without serious scrutiny Pavel Sudoplatov's account of Oppenheimer's "contributions" to Soviet nuclear weapons development ((BOOK EXCERPT, April 25)). It is a matter of historical record that Oppenheimer was interested in a variety of left-wing causes during the 1930s and early '40s and that friends and family belonged to the American Communist Party for brief periods. It is also true that the Soviets were able to penetrate the wartime Manhattan Project -- and particularly Los Alamos. Klaus Fuchs is without doubt their greatest success in that regard...
...Jones story makes editors particularly queasy because they fear she may be seeking money or publicity and because she seems linked to people hoping for political gain. Moreover, her account is ultimately uncheckable: only two people were in the room. But even if true, some editors question its relevance. It took place before Clinton was President, and one essential element -- that he was an imperfect husband -- is not exactly news. There has been a tacit standard that his pre-presidential peccadillos were absolved when he and his wife discussed them on 60 Minutes during the campaign...
Robson said Barrett's totals are alsomisleading because they do not account for thegreater spending by the Cambridge Democrat'scampaign...
...enrich this week's cover stories with additional insights into Mandela, we turned to contributor Richard Stengel. He too is a veteran observer of South Africa, having published the 1990 book January Sun, an account of a single day in the Transvaal town of Brits, where three men spend their separate, unequal lives. "I chose Brits," he says, "because I thought the real story of South Africa was in the countryside, not the cities." Stengel, who is helping Mandela edit his memoirs, admires the man's self-deprecating sense of humor. "As Mandela approached the polls last week," Stengel recalls...