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...assisted suicide. The G.O.P. probably would never go that far. Still, as an aide to the House leadership puts it, "the fight is not over." And with that kind of language, the battle over Terri Schiavo's legacy isn't likely to simmer down anytime soon. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr., John F. Dickerson and Karen Tumulty/Washington; Amanda Bower/New York; Dee Gill and Wendy Malloy/Tampa; Tim Padgett and Siobhan Morrissey/Miami; and David Thigpen and Eric Ferkenhoff/Chicago, with other bureaus
...alive was more important than "the sanctity of marriage"--a concept, of course, at the core of the Christian right's agenda on issues like gay marriage. Whatever Terri Schiavo's fate, the continuing debate promises to be anything but dignified. --By Tim Padgett. With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr. and Michael Peltier
...Picasso and Bacon took different paths toward portraiture, too. While Picasso used live models, Bacon depended on photographs. Not that he painted from photos; he merely used them, as well as just about everything else in his cluttered studio, from newspaper clippings to garbage-can lids, as starting points for his creative energies. Still, the results can be startlingly similar, as you can see in the entire room of heads painted by both artists. Bacon's 1971 Selfportrait shares some Cubist influences with Picasso's 1909 Head of a Man. But in almost every case Bacon's portraits reflect more...
...Bacon was entirely self-taught, and Picasso was hardly his only influence. Bacon's debt to Rembrandt's 1655 Carcass of Beef, for example, is obvious in his own renderings of raw meat. But when Bacon died in 1992, he left behind a London studio dominated by the reproductions, press clippings, published anecdotes and other worked-over memorabilia of one painter: Pablo Picasso. Such single-mindedness makes for a great two-person show...
...Louis. "He's a tragic figure," says Vincent. "I feel sorry for McGwire; he was put in an impossible position. On the other hand, he did a stupid thing, and in this life, when you do a stupid thing you pay for it." --With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr./Washington and David Thigpen/Chicago