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...begin graduate work at Yale, Puryear discovered minimalism. Donald Judd's boxes, Carl Andre's metal plates on the floor--there was a whole new world of militant reduction in art, of fiercely simplified forms, preferably in factory-milled materials. Meanwhile he also discovered the virtuoso cabinet maker James Krenov, who was asking how the individual qualities of each piece of wood could give a particular voice to whatever he made. With those models, Puryear had in place the elements of his lifelong working practice. He would put together things that were intricately crafted but not "useful" except...
...military-grade explosives at the mall-blast site, they later attributed the explosion to a gas leak. But as the last bodies were still being pulled from the wreckage, an opposition senator - himself on trial for leading an attempted coup against Arroyo in 2003 - accused members of her Cabinet of orchestrating the blast in order to distract attention from a scandal allegedly involving bags of cash handed out at the presidential palace to lawmakers...
...debt load have often made investors wary. Arroyo has also made progress in tamping down the long-running insurgencies in the south. Two weeks ago, she announced that the government was close to signing a final peace agreement with the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Ricardo Saludo, Arroyo's Cabinet Secretary, says that stability and economic growth should guarantee her tenure: "As far as she's concerned, she will stay until 2010. Investors don't want to see a constitutionally elected President removed from office. And we want to give them that confidence...
...October, Arroyo canceled a $329 million contract with Chinese company ZTE to build a government broadband network after a businessman who had submitted a rival bid alleged that the deal involved millions of dollars in kickbacks for members of Arroyo's administration. Election Commissioner Benjamin Abalos resigned after the Cabinet Secretary in charge of infrastructure development testified that Abalos had offered him a $4.4 million bribe to approve the project. (Abalos has denied any wrongdoing...
...because this year is a (re)election year for the governing couple, the obscure ministries of Social Development and Federal Planning now take charge of more than half of the state’s budget. To make things even worse, President Kirchner has amended laws to give his cabinet discretionary power over budgetary allocations without bothering with the legislature. According to many, the government has also tweaked price indexes, as if discourse could influence the tangible reality of inflationary pressures. But thanks to petrodollars, at least there is always plenty of money for official advertisements in the subdued national media.When...