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...table was intermittent, and the swatches kept changing in intensity. Color is a moving target under the best of circumstances, so how, I wondered, could these color mavens function in such variable conditions? How could they ever hope to pinpoint the hues my wife or I would choose (by dint of inexorable social forces) when it came time to rethink our apartment for the 21st century? I had to keep reminding myself: These people are trained professionals...
...June, they complete a series of tasks, using computer-based tools like the ones astronomers use. Each task builds on the ones before it, so calculations made in October may provide an essential tool for November's assignment. Thompson's students admit they often begin hopelessly lost until, by dint of their own collaborative labors and their teacher's counsel, they find their way. ``It's the biggest satisfaction,'' says Simon Heffner, a senior. ``You don't realize you understand it and then it hits you!'' In the end, adds Thompson, ``they have knowledge that they can deploy, as opposed...
...outline of his life seems a fable of what emigration could inspire. The young artist -- Cole was the son of a small trader from Lancashire -- arrives in the aesthetically uncharted wilderness, where, self-taught, by dint of "natural vision," he begins to create a new, true and specifically American picturesqueness out of rocks, gorges, sunsets, trees and distant Indians. He is taken up by the plutocrats of his day, some with long patrician roots, like Stephen van Rensselaer III, America's biggest landlord, and others more recently arrived, like the grocery millionaire Luman Reed. Old money wanted to show that...
...hour-long speech was an apt symbol of Clinton's presidency after one year: a bold, ungainly, often messy affair that moves in many directions, is impervious to order and yet, by sheer dint of effort, may prove successful. Recent polls have shown that Americans -- whatever they think of his policies and his character -- appreciate Clinton's formidable energy and his doughty resilience. And Clinton knows these traits are his biggest advantages. As he told a senior Republican lawmaker last fall, "I'm a lot like Baby Huey. I'm fat. I'm ugly. But if you push me down...
...would expect by dint of interest, Gore has been influential on environmental and technology issues. But he was also put in charge of the National Performance Review, often called "reinventing government," or "ReGo" for short. Any project with that many names was bound to be viewed initially as the domestic equivalent of being sent to a funeral in Thailand, but it has emerged as a strong leg in Clinton's economic tripod, along with health-care reform and the North American Free Trade Agreement. ReGo gained importance when Clinton cited its money-saving potential to members of Congress who were...