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Harvard can harness this prestige-lust with life-sized cardboard cut-outs of its cultural icons. The endless parade of Yardgoers will gladly shell out 10 bucks for pictures of themselves kissing Rudenstine, draping their arms around John Kenneth Galbraith, rubbing Marty Feldstein's bald pate, giving Alan Dershowitz the finger...
...weeks ago, the environmental artist Christo, wrapper of seacoasts, had 1,760 giant umbrellas implanted and opened in the bald, dun landscape of the Tejon Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles (1,340 more were simultaneously opened in Japan). The art seemed very California, surreal, whimsical, harmlessly airheaded, vaguely haunting -- the umbrellas disconnected from practical function and somehow mocking the grand scenery: a conceptual joke. But then high winds rose. By a kind of sinister telekinesis, one of the giant umbrellas lifted out of the earth, flew across the landscape and crushed a woman to death...
Public parks remain Kevorkian's preferred treatment centers. Adkins' suicide occurred in a rusting van parked in a campground; this time the two women were found dead in a cabin in the Bald Mountain recreation area, about 40 miles north of Detroit. Kevorkian himself called the police to report the fatalities. "The people were still hooked up to the machines when the sheriffs got there," said county sheriff sergeant Dale Romeo...
...Menashe? A lowly translator who never rose above unimportant desk jobs, according to the Israeli government. A teller of "bald-faced lies," says George Bush. A demon peddler of arms by his own account. Seymour Hersh says Ben-Menashe is an expert on signal intelligence who served more than 10 years in the Israeli army and in 1987, so he claims, became an intelligence adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. In mid-1990 he brought his story to Hersh before leaving the U.S. for Australia and a life of exile...
...LITTLE ROCK residents, the adultery accusations are old hat. You hear the rumors all the time. They range from trifling indiscretions (Clinton on the State Capitol steps smooching a heavily made up young secretary) to bald-faced immorality (Clinton committing adultery and fathering illegitimate children...