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Whistler was a very considerable artist, none the less so for being a self-invented man. Perhaps, like West a century before, he was irked by the low status of artists in America; his solution was not to attach himself to a court, as West did, but to pretend to be a native aristocrat. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1834, and partly raised in Russia, where his father, an engineer, was designing the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad for Czar Nicholas I. Doubtless the Russian fixation on rank impressed him; in any case, he began to insist quite early...
This campus seems to have come across a dearth of things to care about, and so we attach ourselves, tightly, to causes without a valuable purpose, without a valuable end. We eager beavers--always on the search for a cause--seem to care more about having a cause than what that cause...
Hours before the Oklahoma City bombing dwarfed partisan politics, President Clinton launched an attack on the GOP, insisting he would not be "blackmailed" by House Speaker Newt Gingrich's threat to attach GOP bills to budgetary measures that Clinton would have difficulty vetoing. "A strategy to sort of put me in a box would be an error because I will still exercise the power of the presidency in the interest of the American people," Clinton said at an Oval Office photo-op, reprising his Wednesday press conference theme that the president is "relevant." If Gingrich tied controversial "Contract With America...
...jail? Tell him I will work with him in any way I can to help him straighten this out." Final pause. "But if I find out where he' s working and he hasn' t called, I won't give him the courtesy of a phone call. l'll attach his wages." James hangs up. He's good: people he wants to pay up, usually pay up. That makes their ex-wives and their children happy...
...worst nightmare. I'll be on him like a new coat of paint." They employ standard investigative techniques, but once they find their man, they have more resources than the average bill collector. Armed with a court order, investigators can often convince authorities to garnish wages, attach bank accounts or even foreclose on real estate. The provisions passed by the House last week could "give us additional tools to work with,'' Hoffman says. Sometimes the collectors simply shame the deadbeat, plastering his neighborhood with wanted posters or--in a case near Fort Worth--posting his name on a highway billboard...