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...focus--including beauty. Twenty-five years ago, if an American painter or sculptor, when asked what he wanted to achieve, had replied "Beauty," he might well have earned a double take as a mere decorator. (Decorators were always "mere" back then.) Art was meant to issue political challenges, to confront convention, et cetera. And a lot of truly lousy, polemical art lay in that et cetera...
...Ponte insisted that "the Serbian people are not on trial here. It is Slobodan Milosevic as an individual who will now face trial." But beginning with Milosevic's arraignment Tuesday, the sheer sensation of the trial will thrust many long-concealed crimes into the light and force Serbs to confront the scope of atrocities allegedly commanded by Milosevic but carried out by ordinary men and women, in their guises as soldiers and paramilitaries. The tribunal's original indictment against Milosevic, issued in 1999, deals with the atrocities committed by Serb and Yugoslav army forces in Kosovo and holds Milosevic responsible...
...Congress for $25 million a year - three times current Spending - to pay for character education. The House and Senate, confident the program will be popular at home, recently upped the funding to $50 million a year. Before we rejoice in the new teaching of virtue, however, we need to confront two problems, one philosophical, the other practical. First, the underlying idea behind the rest of Bush's education package is to give states more flexibility in return for holding them more accountable for performance. That's why Bush wants to streamline federal programs - so he can demand results without telling...
WASHINGTON—What role does the media play in our perception of race today? Two panels of America’s top journalists, professors, and media executives gathered together on Thursday in Washington, D.C. to confront this question...
...Peace talks will force both sides to once again confront the fundamental differences that sent them to war in the first place. And all the bloodshed of the past nine months is unlikely to have moved them any closer to resolving those...