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During the 1960s," Andy Warhol once said, "I think people forgot what emotions were supposed to be, and I don't think they've ever remembered." Warhol's words are belied by the strong sensations - humor, outrage, nostalgia - that reverberate through "Les Années Pop," the landmark exhibit that opened March 15 at Paris' Centre Pompidou. For if it can often be difficult to seize the meaning behind a given piece of Pop (short for popular) Art, this show's great strength is to put 500 works of art, architecture, fashion, design and film into the context...
...already secured their turf are in danger of being priced out--of both the rental and sales markets. "I have several friends who are seriously considering moving to other places because the economic pressures are just too great," says Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin, adding that Mary Ann Singleton, his protagonist in the series first published in the Chronicle, couldn't afford to rent in San Francisco today. Singleton, like Maupin, lived for a pittance in a rustic roof apartment with sweeping views of the bay. "I spent my 20s in San Francisco simply grateful that I could...
Robert's case would be simpler if he were in worse shape. Since the groundbreaking New Jersey ruling that in 1976 allowed the parents of coma victim Karen Ann Quinlan to shut off her respirator, California and other states have permitted families to remove life support from comatose or terminally ill patients. Wendland is neither. Given the precedent the Wendland case may set, right-to-life and disability-rights activists have lined up behind Florence, while bioethics professionals and the American Civil Liberties Union are supporting Rose. "This is a vital public-policy case," declares Wesley Smith, author of Culture...
...changing its widow treatment; she is now considered a target for 2002. (Carnahan must run in 2002 since it was her husband who was elected; she was only appointed.) G.O.P. polls in Missouri show that Carnahan runs even, at 43%, against former Congressman JAMES TALENT. Against Representative JO ANN EMERSON, Carnahan leads by 9%, but partisans point out that Emerson is not well known. Neither has announced intentions to run, but Republicans hope the numbers, and Carnahan's 29% unfavorable rating, will encourage one of them. What changed? "The Ashcroft vote turned her into a politician," says a Republican Senate...
...interest of bipartisanship, shouldn't you give the Republicans equal time? I don't recall that you analyzed each of President Bush's pardons in such excruciating detail. ANN C. EDMONDS Bloomington...