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Babbitt has declared his agency the "Department of the Environment," but he has tried to reassure anxious Western miners, ranchers and loggers that he will not pursue radical policies. Few are better suited to carry that message. Babbitt is the face of the New West, a former Arizona attorney general and Governor who comes from a cattle-ranching family and holds a master's degree in geophysics and a Harvard law degree. He preaches change through consensus. "I don't regard this as a great adversarial crusade," says Babbitt. "I think these issues are going to be worked out with...
Generally, Rothenberg seems to be at her best in paintings that combine a single image with anxious focus. In the later '80s she became preoccupied with a different, atmospheric style of painting and images of dancers (including one of her aesthetic heroes, the painter Piet Mondrian, imagined solemnly doing the fox-trot with a Rothenberg-like partner). In their cold, flickering, indistinct light, one catches long-distance echoes of Impressionism and of the sequential-position photography that was once copied by the Italian Futurists. In these, as in the drawings from this period, form is extremely provisional -- the shape...
...While it seems that many of the administrators are willing to quickly dismantle the Harvard Foundation and the Office of Race Relations and Minority Affairs, they do not seem as anxious to put something in its place," Ali says...
Virginians have been anxious to change their state image as the gunrunning capital of the East Coast and reduce the hauls taken in by police from the streets, such as these found in Richmond. And so, urged on by Governor L. Douglas Wilder, both chambers of the state's legislature passed new gun- control legislation last week. While slight differences in the two versions of the measure have to be ironed out, both contain a central feature that perhaps only the National Rifle Association could consider unreasonable and lobby strongly to defeat: people will ordinarily be able...
...committee member from Yazoo City, and a Washington lobbyist, Barbour, 45, was conservative enough to serve as a Reagan adviser but smooth enough to attract the support of country-club Republicans anxious to check the influence of the religious right, whose delegates favored former Missouri Governor John Ashcroft or party tactician Spencer Abraham. Rather than flock under ideological banners, however, most of the R.N.C. members avoided ideology. The loudest applause of the day came when Rich Bond, the G.O.P.'s retiring chairman, urged that the 1996 platform drop its strict antiabortion plank...