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...Although our artists may not draw the highest prices, they glean prizes and international recognition. Buren won Japan's Praemium Imperiale for painting in 2007, Christian Boltanski received it for sculpture in 2006, and Annette Messager won the Golden Lion at the 2005 Venice Biennale...
...Should fashion designers be excluded from the sphere of art and culture? Christian Lacroix, Azzedine Alaïa, Jean-Paul Gaultier and so many others are worldwide stars. Our luxury industries, as well as our Michelin-starred chefs, are perceived abroad as evidence of the vitality of French "culture...
...After Romney's ethereal performance in Newton, I drove to Indianola, where Huckabee was holding a clown-car event, trying to stuff hundreds of supporters and dozens of camera crews into an upstairs room meant to hold about 20. Huckabee had lost control of his Christian calm and spent most of his stump speech railing against Romney. This was pretty shocking for a primary, where attacks tend to be muffled because the losers eventually support the winner. Huckabee was particularly miffed by Romney's ad about the pardons. He told the crowd the story of one pardon - an Iraq...
...church that lost its tax-exempt status after paying for a newspaper ad that criticized former President Bill Clinton. Another mailing warns church leaders against "campaigning" for a candidate, before announcing in capital letters: "IT WILL LAND YOU IN THE SLAMMER!" The letter, which is signed by "Concerned Christian," then suggests that churches should avoid even more anodyne political involvement. "With Sen. Grassley holding hearings on exactly this issue in Washington DC, we can't be to careful!!!!" it states, with a notable misspelling. Hollinger said the letters were addressed to him, with no return address and a Des Moines...
...letters became a topic of discussion on a Wednesday morning conference call with Iowa pastors that was organized by the U.S. Pastor Council and several Christian leaders who have personally endorsed Huckabee. "It's literature kind of indicating that churches better not be involved in politics," said another letter recipient and Huckabee endorser, Pastor Terry Amann, of the Walnut Creek Community Church in Windsor Heights. The call included about 50 leaders, including bestselling Christian author Tim LaHaye, who also supports Huckabee...