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...catalog entries for this show, listing title, date and materials, sound more like small towns than works of art: "The Ozymandias Parade, 1985. Tableau: wood, plastic, mirrored plexiglass, fiberglass horses, light bulbs, recorded music, paint, clothing, plaster casts, rubber, metal, galvanized sheet metal, polyester resin, wagon, pork barrel, suitcases, fake money, telephone, miniature flags, and toys, 147 x 349 x 180 [inches...
...because a permanent peace treaty has never been signed, South Korea is still at war with North Korea, and whether relative peace can come about only depends on how its northern neighbor chooses to restrain itself. For the past decades, the Korean peninsula has never ceased to resemble a barrel of gunpowder which could blow up any time. Bordering upon each other are the two countries, both claiming to be the true representative of the Korean people, between whom there exists the widest and oddest gap imaginable given a homogeneous race and an identical language...
...WASHINGTON OUT TO CUT federal spending, 12-term Congressman Bud Shuster is an unrepentant pork-barrel spender. Now it appears the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has converts. More than half his House colleagues--including a hefty majority of those reform-minded G.O.P. freshmen--are backing a bill that would lift constraints on highway and airport projects. If the Truth in Budgeting Act is passed by the House next week, it would give Shuster's committee great latitude to tap some $33 billion in transportation trust funds...
...LINE-ITEM VETO. FOR YEARS--decades, actually--that wish has been a mantra. Editorial writers, good-government groups and all modern Presidents have wanted to give the Chief Executive the power to comb bloated budget bills and X out the most nonsensical portions, notably the pork-barrel provisions that members of Congress trade among themselves. In fact, straight-shooting members of Congress have been trying to give Presidents this authority since 1876. Forty-three state Governors have had it for years. Now, finally, the call is being answered. Last week the House and Senate approved a modified line-item veto...
...took Paul's prophecies with more than a barrel of salt, it's only because my skepticism actually stems from a strong desire to believe. No one ever forced his or her palmistry on me--in each instance, my palms literally itched to be read. I'd even paid the Faneuil Hall woman five dollars for her prophesy--in advance, of course. This desire to believe merits some examination, especially because it is so pervasive among Harvard students. Paul said he has read the palms of more than 100 Dunsterites in the past six weeks...