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...small paintings - might be sold at a local antiques fair or online. A more impressive work will make its way up the criminal food chain, passed from the thief to his fence to a crooked dealer, who draws up a fake provenance, to a gallery owner, who turns a blind eye, and so on, until it lands on the legitimate market, eventually bought by a collector, who may have no idea it was stolen...
...would have an uphill climb in the fall. Economic distress is moving some independents toward the Democrats, and McCain has yet to develop proposals to help them. But at least he has his eye on the prize at a time when his party has become a kingdom of the blind...
...like Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla - see plant power as a way to break America's dependence on foreign oil, and produce auto fuel that doesn't kill the climate. Opponents dismiss biofuels - most of which are currently distilled from crops like corn and sugar cane - as a blind alley, one that drives up food prices without saving the earth...
...this argument relies on a shallow and misguided interpretation of Obama’s hope. As he said in his victory speech after the Iowa caucuses, “Hope is not blind optimism…Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.” This is the transformative power of Obama’s candidacy: He offers a vision of change more ambitious than any candidate...
...muted response of liberals to the devastation of Afghanistan. Though there, in the words of the heroic Malalai Joya, American support for “fundamentalist warlords… [makes] a mockery of democracy,” fewer troop casualties and lower overall costs allow Democrats to turn a blind...