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...government departments have seen budget cuts over the past few years, and we have arrived at the logical end. The Bush Administration can no longer provide security - that most basic part of the Hobbesian bargain in which power is ceded to a central authority in exchange for protection. To consign people to death because of bureaucratic ineptitude is one issue, but speaking as a political scientist, I believe failure to provide security for one of the largest ports in the U.S. is simply unthinkable. Barbara P. McCrea Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S. I am sick and tired of people blaming the Federal...
That should have been enough to consign Tuttle to the scrap heap of history, though you suspect that even there he would have had fun with the scraps. But his fragile art, with its flickering pulse, has turned out to be durable. Three decades later, he's the subject of "The Art of Richard Tuttle," a retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) that sends you home with your senses briskly reconditioned. After it closes in San Francisco on Oct. 16, the exhibition goes on the road for two years, heading first to the Whitney--talk about...
...Mafia don to "Dr. Friedrich Engles," a purported psychoanalyst. He too is hiding, from a daughter who wants to supervise his risky behavior. When at last she catches up with him, he deftly summarizes her alternative plans to take him in, place him in a nursing home or consign him to day care at a senior citizens' center: "O.K., we got three possibilities. We got exile in Great Neck. We got Devil's Island. And we got kindergarten. All rejected...
Somewhere between the Administration's ill-disguised desire to back the contras as a means of over throwing the Sandinistas and the Congress's temptation to consign them to a quick defeat by pulling the plug on U.S. support, there are at least two other courses of action. One is for the U.S. to support the contras indefinitely as a way of distracting and bleeding the Sandinistas. Even if the contras cannot win militarily, perhaps they could provide insurance that the regime would be too busy at home to make mischief abroad...
...were Nick Hornby's friend and he told you about a book he was working on called A Long Way Down (Riverhead; 333 pages), you would have gently taken him aside and encouraged him to consign it to that great literary recycling bin into which unwritable novels go. As a writer Hornby is one of the great welterweights-lots of comic flair, good with the voices and the pop culture, always ready with a dash of bittersweet pathos-but he's not generally thought of as swinging a heavy bat, intellectually speaking. There's a reason his books get turned...