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Defending champion and number one tournament seed Florida will play the winner of the Pepperdine (16th) and Texas (17th) match. Look for the Longhorns to advance to a second round death sentence against Florida...
Gauguin's achievement has always been hard to assess because so much of his late work, done between his final departure from France in 1895 and his death on the tiny, remote island of Hivaoa in 1903, was bought en bloc by Russian collectors, ended up in the Hermitage and the Pushkin Museum, and has not been seen in the West since 1906. The show contains eleven of these "Russian" Gauguins...
...younger brother to whom the torch was passed. Again, as a brother, he had to battle past his own dark night of the soul to take up a doomed burden, knowing that every time he rose to speak in front of a crowd it was to stare his own death in the eye. But the Kennedy magic, both a blessing and a curse, attached to him, and he quickly became a Senator, then a rebel candidate for President. Almost as quickly, he too was killed...
What echoes today is a memory, almost mythic in proportions. Like all leaders who die young, Bobby is frozen in death as larger than life. As a memory, he evokes an era of political passion and social commitment that stands in haunting contrast to 1988. As a myth, he is a vessel into which all dreams can be poured. A recent Rolling Stone survey found that to this day only Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. stand out as heroes to the 18- to 44-year-olds who were interviewed...
...after Bobby plunged into the 1968 campaign, accelerated his transformation. The war, Kennedy's ostensible reason for getting into the race, gave way to a near desperate plea for an end to racial hatred and intractable poverty. In speeches scribbled on note pads in the days after King's death, Kennedy made some of his most eloquent appeals. "For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly," he declared. "The violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors...