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...show, the Brooklyn Museum has done it again with Renee Cox's Yo Mama's Last Supper, in which Cox features herself naked in the place of Christ. It's all just so much stale postmodern show biz, slick and corny at the same time. Don't let it divert you from Bob Greene's hot shots of Papua New Guinea or Beuford Smith's Hip-Hop poster series, highlights in an otherwise benign but mostly unremarkable show...
...years, a rickety computer system that goes back a lot further, and the IRS legislation that Newt Gingrich and company passed after those 1998 hearings to try and get the voters to like conservative Republicans again. (It didn't work very well.) The bill forced the IRS to divert enforcement resources to happier things like customer service, with predictable results...
...precaution while talking. "I always switch the phone from one side of my head to the other, so I can equalize the radiation," she says. Glenn Wilson, a truck driver in Oak Park, Ill., is worried about cell-phone radiation too. He uses a hands-free headset to divert radio waves away from his brain. "I try not to put it by my head anymore," Wilson says. "The headset is always with...
...fact, some thriller fans may feel that Wilson drags out the suspense a tad longer than is strictly necessary. But more patient readers will find plenty to divert them along the way. Coelho, for example, is not simply a plot functionary but an interesting and sympathetic character in his own right, a widower still grieving for his wife, killed a year earlier in a car accident, and uneasily trying to raise a daughter about the same age as the murder victim. And Wilson's descriptions often achieve epigrammatic power. Here is Felsen visiting bombed-out Berlin near...
Matthew P. Zanotelli '02 said he would divert some of the money to his planned council endowment, which would go towards funding the council in the future...