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...idea isn't totally new--everyone from Gingrich to Bill Bennett to the self-anointed compassion queen Arianna Huffington has tried to peddle it. What's significant this time is that some of this softening has slipped into the Republican canon. In the baby-steps department, the Republicans have discussed using the fiscal savings of one bill to help pay for breast-cancer screenings, for instance. But they are also likely to promote bigger proposals, like health-insurance protection for the first six months of unemployment, educational reforms to benefit the disabled, and Superfund toxic-waste cleanup. One congressional group...
...back wall of the gallery. It creates a crescendo across the wall of color and technical advancements in print-making but it is too wide to really incite appreciation as a grouping of photographs. Bookended by William Henry Jackson’s 1890 photograph, “Canon of Grand River, Utah” and Alex Webb’s contemporary color photograph “Guard at Sugar Plantation, Outside Kampala Uganda,” the collection spotlights more historical subjects such as political campaigning in 1956. The collection is certainly interesting from a photographical and technical perspective...
...grounds of debate” upon which their entire field of study rests. He argues that students need to take a course that that seeks to get to the big questions about the purpose of scholarly pursuit. Ultimately, even if such a class focused largely on the Western canon (such as Plato, Smith, and Bacon—as Thorpe suggests), the debate around these classic texts would allow for a wide range of discourse...
Having interacted with some of the most creative minds in modern jazz, from Mingus to Miles to Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Scofield has the experience and chops to make a reworking of Charles’ canon exciting...
...bringing their own, contemporary perspectives on the acknowledged canon, both artists manage to not only remind us why their sources were relevant in the first place, but to establish their own right to artistic supremacy...