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...that the CIA had asked the Justice Department to investigate the White House, State Department and Pentagon for leakers threw the West Wing into understandable confusion--not that it has been on its game lately. For most of last week, Administration officials felt their way carefully, hoping not to bump into anything sharp. Spokesman McClellan spent several days back on his heels trying to rejigger his original sweeping claims of innocence into more elastic arguments that left open the possibility that this was all a big misunderstanding...
...curators of Project Paradise, open the door and lead the way deeper into the earth along a narrow concrete passageway to a Nazi-era bunker. During World War II, Berlin's huddled masses sheltered here as Allied bombs flattened their city. Until Nov. 2, you're more likely to bump into Hitler, as played by a Russian actor, begging for forgiveness; or a snake handler with a boa constrictor that's meant to represent the serpent in Eden. This may be an unlikely setting for an art show, particularly one that's supposed to celebrate heaven, but don't tell...
...swanning courtiers in Pontormo or Parmigianino, most of them as slender as greyhounds, are nothing like El Greco's rough-cut saints, famished men with skin the color of split timber and stiff robes draped around them like crumpled fenders. And while the Mannerist palette, all that coy bump and grind of pink and yellow, is calculated sometimes to startle, the explosive oddity of El Greco is something else altogether. In his magnificent late canvas The Adoration of the Shepherds, the yellows and crimson, acid green and purple, jammed together to ecstatic effect, are so artificial that they give parts...
...Bergman and Lingman hit an unexpected bump in the road during the semifinal round. The Gophers’ doubles team of Buergis and Nischela Reddy exacted a measure of revenge for Bergman’s three-set semifinal victory over Buergis, rubbing out the favorites...
...laughed in his face about this demand. I sure as hell wasn’t going to bump my head on his bunk every morning. So his passive-aggressive attacks continued. He took long showers so that I couldn’t make it to class on time. He stole my toothpaste and used my toothbrush. He held raging keggers night after night. And no matter how many times HUPD broke up the party, his friends would stagger back insisting on their right to return...