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Although they could appear at first to be indecipherable, on a closer look the combines turn out to be a balance?a combination, let's say?of sense and nonsense. Take that goat, for instance, the one that appears in one of his most famous works, Monogram. The distinguished beast, standing on a platform that is actually a Rauschenberg painting, is ringed snugly around its middle by a rubber tire. Goat equals sex drive. Tire equals bodily orifice - you choose which one. Monogram turns out to be a logo for the male libido...
...watching President Bush's trip to the Middle East closer than his potential successors. For Barack Obama, whose candidacy is built on change, it's a chance to remind some voters what they want change from. For John McCain it's test of his strategy of backing Bush in theory, while edging away from him in practice. But for all the distinctions the two draw between each other, and Bush, the next President's approach to the Middle East may look like this one's. "A lot of what's going to happen there is beyond our control," says Robert...
...NGOs were given permission to enter the country and coordinate aid work-something that is happening at a glacial pace. One of the few foreign shipments allowed in was quickly relabeled to say that the goods had been donated courtesy of the junta. "With each passing day, we come closer to a massive health disaster and a second wave of deaths that is potentially larger than the first," warns Gordon Bacon, the International Rescue Committee's emergency coordinator in Rangoon...
...estimated the cyclone killed 10,000 people in Bogolay and the surrounding area, but I saw no dead bodies on the road to the city or in Bogalay itself. I saw no funerals. While the place is in tatters, the death toll may be greater in more exposed villages closer to the sea. Bogalay is slightly inland; the majority of deaths occurred in more flimsy coastal villages fully exposed to the elements and unprotected from a 12-foot-high surge of water...
...closer to the end of this problem than we are to the beginning.' HENRY PAULSON, U.S. Treasury Secretary, on the country's economic troubles, as the credit crisis enters its ninth month...