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...Carter's era, the Democratic caucus was riven by ideological differences and too disdainful of the President to work with him effectively. Senate associate historian Donald Ritchie says you have to go all the way back to the dawn of F.D.R.'s second term in 1937 to find a President aligned with a filibuster-proof Senate majority that has comparable cohesion and potential to pass significant legislation. "Doing the filibuster at every whim to block us is not [an option], and that makes legislating a lot easier," says New York Democrat Charles Schumer. (See a day-by-day look...
...child, the Toys "R" Us store in Phillipsburg, N.J., is a wonderland. Just browse the aisles - Transformer toys over here! A talking Elmo over there! Charmin toilet paper! Dawn dishwashing liquid...
...wrote in the book, comes from within, from "inner necessity," and colors and shapes speak to people just as musical sounds do: "Color is a power which directly influences the soul." Contemporary Russian mystic Helena Blavatsky had preached that a new, spiritual age was about to dawn, and Kandinsky was convinced. He saw the artist at the apex of a triangle moving into the future, the base representing the mass of humanity who are slower to see the light. The paintings he produced at the time are full of joy and liberation, made with rapid, free gestures. In Improvisation...
...this time, Kandinsky was on his own, artistically. The train of followers that he predicted in his book failed to materialise. And that new age he had been so sure of never did dawn. But after his death in 1944, his spirit lived on in the postwar design explosion that sprayed color onto a grey and battered world. And today, his work perfectly illustrates progress toward an ideal - a rarity in a world consumed with art for art's sake...
...Even more questions linger surrounding her death, which signaled the dawn of the Roman Empire under Julius Caesar's nephew Octavian, who was waging a bitter civil war with Mark Antony. "She definitely died at a very convenient time for Octavian," says Tyldesley. "There is no absolute proof that she committed suicide, and so it is possible that she was either forced to do so, or that she was killed. Of course," she adds, "there is no proof that she died by snakebite, either...