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...second gallery, "All Roads Are Good," is also filled with Heye art. But instead of choosing the pieces themselves, the curators turned to 23 Native American "selectors," whose personal reflections take precedence over academic labels. The Ojibwe canoemaker Earl Nyholm presents a brace of his tribe's exquisitely beaded bandolier bags, including one decorated with a Stars-and-Stripes motif. In spite of history, Nyholm recalls how the flag and the Fourth of July were readily adapted into Ojibwe culture and ceremony...
...brace of Governor's races spells trouble for Clinton...
...purposes, i.e., anything smacking of social engineering, are barbarians; and further still, that these barbarians are not at the gates but are largely in charge of American education and the nation's debased institutions of public discourse. His The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Harcourt Brace; 578 pages; $29.95) is thus, in part, a dire prophecy of the end of civilization as we know it: "I realize that the Balkanization of literary studies is irreversible...
Snow Falling on Cedars (Harcourt Brace; 345 pages; $21.95), a beautifully assured and full-bodied story, centers on a trial: when the bloody corpse of Carl Heine, a large, well-meaning salmon fisherman, is pulled out of the water one day, suspicion immediately falls on Heine's old friend and recent adversary, Kabuo Miyomoto, a Japanese colleague who has been bidding for some of Heine's property. As Miyomoto sits in the snowbound courtroom, he is watched by his elegant wife Hatsue; she, in turn, is watched by Ishmael Chambers, a young reporter who has been in love with...
Faulkner, 19, will not be getting a crew cut on Monday. Nor will she be forced to walk in gutters instead of on sidewalks. She will not be assuming the distorted "brace" position to accept any abuse an upperclassman cares to dish out. Or doing push-ups until she vomits. She will not be submitting to -- or struggling against -- any of the everyday humiliations imposed during the freshman year at the Citadel, the all-male military college that is Charleston's pride, because, as of Friday, a federal appeals court...