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...climax of Diebenkorn's work was, by general consent, the Ocean Park series, which he began in 1967. Ocean Park is part of Santa Monica, the beachside suburb of Los Angeles where he had his studio. From its high crystalline light, its big calm planes of sea and sky, its cuts and interlacings of highway divider and curb and gable and yellow sand, Diebenkorn produced a marvelous synthesis that, though prolonged through more than 140 large canvases, had very few weak moments...
...with such a defect reproduce could result in passing the defect on to his son. Also, since sperm can be obtained surgically, they have in a few cases been recovered from men killed in accidents, and then used to father children--a legal quagmire, since the dead cannot give consent...
...While murder is always morally suspect, especially if it's ordered up in a conference room, Saddam just might be the exception to the rule. His power flows not from the consent of his people but from firing squads and torture chambers. He has ordered the death of tens of thousands and used cyanide, nerve gas and mustard gas against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds. Trained as an assassin--while a young man he took part in a 1959 attempt on the Iraqi Prime Minister--he once ordered a hit on George Bush. He has tried to build atom bombs...
...said that in his native Taiwan, Jiang's visit had generated widespread concern that the United States and China would act on Taiwan's status without that country's consent...
...costing a lot, especially in Baltimore and in other cities where federal courts have effectively taken control of special education. A Philadelphia attorney appointed by the court to monitor Baltimore's compliance with the consent decree billed the school district $125 an hour for her time. Her personal fees for March 1997 alone came to $20,000. The total March bill for her office, including various support services, came to just over $36,000, enough to pay the salary of a mid-level teacher for an entire year--this in a district where some principals claim they cannot buy paper...