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Golfer Fuzzy Zoeller was forced to apologize to Tiger Woods after cracking a racial joke. Denver Nuggets Coach Dan Issel was suspended for a racial slur against a Hispanic; Hispanic activists then campaigned to have him fired. Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., was forced to resign after his highly controversial accolades regarding the late Strom Thurmond. These are just some of the instances in which other minority groups have defied acts of racism. One writer of AsianWeek surmised, “If a white [basketball] player had, for instance, made monkey sounds to taunt a black player...
...also yes. Global warming in some scenarios could lead to a long-term cooling, but nothing so dramatic as this, and certainly not at Hollywood speed: in the movie a killer frost chases a sprinting Gyllenhaal down a hallway. Change that drastic would take decades, if not centuries. Even Dan Schrag, a Harvard paleoclimatologist who spoke at the MoveOn.org press conference, says the plot is largely bunk: "Climate change, global warming, is not going to lead to an Ice Age. And it's not going to happen in a few days...
Though the original Minimalists didn't think of themselves as a school, to outsiders they always looked like one. Andre's steel plates and piles of bricks, Donald Judd's Plexiglas and wooden boxes, Robert Morris' big plywood L shapes, Dan Flavin's bare fluorescent light tubes, Frank Stella's pinstriped canvases--they all flowed from a shared premise. As much as possible, the art object should be based on a single form that announces itself all at once or on a repeated form that produces a similar effect. It should not involve varied surfaces or a balance of different...
With more than 7.3 million copies in print and 59 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code is much more than a mere publishing phenomenon. The controversial theories about Jesus' life woven into its plot have generated enough interest to spawn an information industry of sorts. Here's how some entrepreneurs are cashing in on the global Code craze...
...that carries local and state news. (Miriam Pawel, who spearheaded the changes in California coverage, was replaced in a recent internal shuffle.) The California focus is also reflected in new feature sections on health and the outdoors, and in the creation of an automobile column, for which car critic Dan Neil won a Pulitzer this year...