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...quintessentially American as Jasper Johns' U.S. flag - one of the show's highlights - and serves as both an affirmation and a critique of modern American values. The show focuses on the period from 1956 to 1968 - that exuberant era between victory in World War II and defeat in Vietnam, between the bland complacency of the Eisenhower years and the twitchy paranoia of Nixon's divided nation. It was a time of prosperity and materialism that embraced such pop-cultural Meccas as Las Vegas and Disneyland, and engendered a cornucopia of brand-name goods and futuristic gadgets. The widespread...
...this year. But many officers still feel that China has grown too chummy with the U.S. They resent the U.S. surveillance flights along the Chinese coastline?something the U.S. would never tolerate on its borders?and they resent the fact that the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Japan could defeat China's entire navy. "The military likes to have an enemy, and that's how it sees the U.S.," says a former Chinese official who had close contacts with the army. "It will insist that Jiang hang tough...
Botterill won the award not just because of the quantity of her goals--which led the nation--but also the timing of those goals. For the third consecutive year this season, she scored an overtime game-winner to defeat Northeastern in the Beanpot--an unparalleled achievement...
...McConnell accepted defeat and warned his colleagues what the new world might look like. "This is mutual assured destruction of the political parties," he said. "There won't be one penny less spent on politics it just won't be spent by the parties." Instead, he predicted, there would be a "battle of billionaires over the political discourse in this country" as power was transferred from the parties to the press, academia, Hollywood and the richest individuals. He says half a dozen Democrats came up later and said they were stunned by what they had done to their party...
...Even if all goes as expected this week and the bill clears the Senate, both sides know the game is far from over. Tom DeLay, the Republican majority whip in the House, vowed last week that he will "try anything I can" to defeat the bill, and no one doubts it is possible. Though reform bills have passed the House twice before, McCain-Feingold has changed so dramatically that it has united DeLay and top Democrats in opposition. Sources told TIME that Democratic leader Richard Gephardt complained about the increased hard-money limits directly to Daschle. He was especially angered...