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Vincent is back. We left him at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1984, crop- eared and dazed in Arles: "Sometimes moods of indescribable anguish, sometimes moments when the veil of time and fatality of circumstances seemed to be torn apart for an instant." Two months after writing this, he voluntarily entered the lunatic asylum at Saint-Remy in Provence; and 15 months after that, discharged but still plagued by unassuageable fits of melancholy, he shot himself to death in the rural village of Auvers, just north of Paris. Van Gogh was 37 when he died -- at the same...
Barrett, who was White House correspondent during the first five years of the Reagan Administration, plunged into his new duties by following such potential presidential candidates as George Bush, Robert Dole, Jack Kemp, Gary Hart and Joseph Biden as they campaigned for this year's crop of state and local nominees...
James Spencer, director of the Kennedy field operation, said "Joe Kennedy is the first politician I've worked for who can speak to the baby-boom generation on down." He said he hoped Kennedy would be able to inspire the young to political action, since the current crop of aspiring politicians "is like the Revenge of the Nerds"--an ambitious but selfish collection of "high-school debate team captains...
...bills differ in specific provisions but are similar in thrust, proposing a broad approach that would pour money into enforcement education, rehabilitation and crop eradication, and would withhold aid from recalcitrant producer countries...
...some estimates, marijuana, with a potential street value of $2,000 a plant, is Oregon's largest cash crop. Yet polls show that the proposition is unlikely to pass. Legalizing pot, opponents argue, would make it harder to fight abuse of other drugs and would turn Oregon into America's largest distributor of the weed...