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In the '88 campaign and in some of his presidential statements earlier this year, Bush accepted the proposition that the time to act is now. But the Commerce and Interior departments have waged constant guerrilla warfare against any effort to make good on the President's prior commitments. Meanwhile, the...
The most frequent victims of the U.S. carnage were black males ages 15 to 19: 49.2 per 100,000 in this group died in 1987 from the homicidal use of guns. Among whites, the rate was 5.1 per 100,000. Said Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan: "We are...
By the time he did so on Sept. 2, his department had already hired about two-thirds of the required census coordinators through the civil service. Thus these nonpartisan supervisors will be able to select most of the 400,000 door- to-door enumerators at up to $8 an hour...
The big change in his fortunes came in 1524, when he was 25. Giulio was approached by the Venetian writer and rake Pietro Aretino, who wanted illustrations for his Sonetti Lussuriosi (Salacious Sonnets). Giulio produced 16 drawings, each depicting a handsome couple rutting with the energy of blacksmiths in a...
Some were almost impenetrably learned: no ordinary visitor today knows enough about Renaissance astrology to "read" the arcane designs in the Room of the Winds. Others are quite straightforward, like those in the chamber in which Federico had Giulio and his assistants paint life-size effigies of his favorite horses...