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...Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon during a news conference in the Green Zone, causing him to cringe and duck just minutes after Prime Minister al-Maliki had said Ban's visit showed that the city was "on the road to stability." For those Iraqis were starting to breath easier in the capital and take advantage of the spring weather, the blast was another reminder of how far the U.S and Iraqi governments still have to go in implementing their ambitious five-week old security plan that has brought over 90,000 troops to the city...
...world that has seen The Vagina Monologues, not many people will be shocked to hear that an artwork might focus on women's genitals. But in 1980, when The Dinner Party went on a hugely popular national tour, all those pudendal things caused some people to take a deep breath. As late as 1990, when a proposal was made to house the work on a Washington campus, Republican Congressman Robert K. Dornan could still denounce it in the House as "ceramic 3-D pornography...
...hope that this year I am proven wrong, and the media avoids making such facile, ignorant mischaracterizations when covering Dyke Ball and its pro-choice concert. I am not holding my breath...
...water companies have deep pockets, and and they have learned to hold their breath. They've waited out wars and revolutions; a bit of bother in the outre-mer hardly fazes them. Both firms were built around water concessions first granted in the 19th century. The Compagnie Générale des Eaux, which evolved into Veolia, was born in 1853 when the progressive councilors of Emperor Napoleon III granted a group of investors the concession to provide water to the city of Lyon. It was such a hit on the Paris stock market that the company soon spun...
...people were feeling like they couldn’t keep with the pace,†he says.Daly also says that delaying the plan will allow the University to fill in the gaps in the current proposal.“It gives the museum a chance to catch its breath and verify a lot of the internal details before re-initiating the public process,†he says.Manoogian says that while HUAM has not had much of an opportunity to speak with the community about what the museum will do, he is confident that they will come...