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...series, titled War Games -- 16 sculptures so far, a growing family. Each piece is a trunk, a dead tree salvaged from the dying forests of the Mazury Lakes region, 200 miles north of Warsaw. Abakanowicz works these trunks to a degree -- stripping the bark, smoothing out some excrescences with chain saw and hatchet and applying some surface treatment -- but she does not carve them beyond that. Each wrinkled bole with its splayed limbs and fissures keeps its tree-ness and does not become mere timber, raw material. Abakanowicz preserves the body of the tree, and then she fits this body...
...anyone else, since I don't know the whole story and can prove nothing. I will ask my friend to talk to the victim, to try to convince her to come forward and press charges; still, I know this is unlikely to work. Trapped at the end of a chain of whispers and secrets, I am speaking out as best I can. I want to beg any woman who has been raped to fight back publicly, to break out of the silence that frightens and oppresses all women. And I challenge every member of the Harvard community to fight...
Owen, 19, of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, carries a key chain bearing the inscription, A TISKET, A TASKET, A CONDOM OR A CASKET...
Clinton, who had spent days getting used to the idea of securing peace in Bosnia with American troops, was dumbfounded by the rejection of the peace plan. "It showed," said a White House official, "that the chain of influence was less strong among the Serbs than just about everybody predicted." The President responded to the Serbs' go-to-hell decision by urging the "international community to unite and to act quickly and decisively." What the U.S. sought, he said, was "not to act alone, not to act rashly, not to do things which would draw the U.S. into a conflict...
...purchaser to depreciate the value of the customer lists it acquires if it can show they have a limited useful life. The opinion affirmed the Newark Morning Ledger Co.'s right to depreciate 460,000 subscriptions (valued at $68 million) that were obtained through the purchase of a chain of Michigan newspapers; the Justices knocked down IRS interpretations that treat such "intangible assets" as nondepreciable "goodwill." The ruling will benefit many other acquisitions, from bank deposits to pharmacy prescription files...