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...guard of FM is just that: a keeper of the magazine, holding the torch that has been kept faithfully alight during the twelve volumes that precede this one. All of this proceeds in fits and starts--we need to take a breath and hope: change is good. Change is good. Change is good...
...find the level beneath which he will not sink. At the 1996 convention he described how he sat at the deathbed of his younger sister in 1984 as she succumbed to the ravages of lung cancer, and how he vowed to fight tobacco until he drew "his last breath." Problem with that was he had made a 1988 speech to North Carolina farmers in which he extolled the joys of growing tobacco. Plus there was his continued acceptance of campaign contributions from Big Tobacco. No one questioned his sorrow, but those who were spellbound by his story were left...
...some level, her art seems more dependent on the play of language than visual ingenuity. A number of her found objects make this particularly clear, such as Breath of a Librarian, a deflated black balloon found in the reading room of the British Library. Works like this might lead us to wonder whether collector, rather than sculptor, might be a better description for Parker...
...Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, attended a long and unwieldy council meeting on the constitutionality of the impeachment process. The word race was not mentioned once during the meeting, but its influence was felt in every section of the room. Some council members uttered disparaging words under their breath; others sighed in exasperation. But more than anything else, I experienced a keen sense of disappointment. I keep thinking that there must be more important things for Dr. Counter to attend to. I understood why he and other black students were present, but I was upset that they deemed their...
...come to mean little more than "charm" or "attractiveness." It is in this spirit that a Seattle Times reporter recently dubbed the Indigo Girls a "charismatic duo," and the Minneapolis Star Tribune called Minn. Gov. Jesse Ventura "a man so charismatic, he can insult and inspire in the same breath...