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...withdrew her name after learning that Paterson - who has the sole authority to name the replacement for Clinton - had decided against picking her. Recent polls have shown that while she was once considered a strong candidate for the position, New Yorkers now say they would prefer state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo - another member of a famous political family, and a former cousin-by-marriage of Caroline Kennedy. A series of tense media appearances and an unusually aggressive behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign by New York power brokers on her behalf have helped damage Kennedy's once unimpeachable above-the-fray...
...This reduction may last beyond the economic recession, according to the dean of Northwestern University’s graduate school, Andrew B. Wachtel...
Reading the obituaries of painter Andrew Wyeth after his death last Friday, I had a crisis of confidence...
Early presidents were often landholders and George Washington set a precedent by retiring to his Mount Vernon plantation after leaving office in 1797. John Adams went back to his Massachusetts farm, Thomas Jefferson settled at Monticello, James Madison kicked back at Montpelier, Andrew Jackson went down to his plantation near Nashville and Martin Van Buren took it easy at his farm, Lindenwald. John Tyler settled into a relaxed life at his Virginia plantation, Sherwood Forest. Then he joined the Confederate Congress, essentially becoming a traitor to the nation he once led. (See pictures of how Presidents age in office...
...Andrew Wyeth's skills as a draughtsman - and maybe also as a showman - are owed to his boisterous, demanding father. But the quiet and spareness of his pictures, the sense of longing and abandonment, of having exacted the maximum effect from the minimum means, may be a reaction against his father's swashbuckling art. His father also marked Wyeth's life strongly in one other way. In 1945 the elder Wyeth, along with his 4-year-old grandson by Andrew's brother Nat, was killed when his car stalled on a railroad track. It was an event that Wyeth...