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Cheney wasn't free-lancing. He and Bush had settled on the fine print of the speech together. For the two men, the position that the Administration now held had a certain logic. Multilateral support for action against Saddam in the U.N., they thought, would come only if the Security Council was convinced that the U.S. would go it alone if it had to; inspections would work only if they were backed up by a credible threat of force if Saddam did not come clean on his weapons. After Bush's speech, Powell and his team set about drafting...
...concurrent craze in Europe and the U.S. for all things Japanese. By the turn of the century Ernest Fenollosa and William Sturgis Bigelow, learned Bostonians infatuated with Japan, were assembling the great collections of furniture, scrollwork, carvings and prints that now fill whole galleries of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
There is still a lot of spadework to do before Americans are as familiar with Hindu goddess figures and Mongol textiles as they are with Impressionist oils. Two weeks ago, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts opened the first full survey in the U.S. of the history of Japanese photography. It's a superb show full of work that will mostly be new to Americans, proceeding from lustrous 19th century geisha portraits to the post-Modernist shenanigans of Yasumasa Morimura, who makes heavily stage-managed pictures of himself decked out as Western icons of both sexes--sort of the Japanese...
...World Gourmet Summit is hosted by Singapore's swankiest restaurants, but those looking for more casual fine dining are also in luck. "There are times when you don't want to have to pull on an Italian-tailored suit to order yourself a beef Bourguignonne," says Tan Su-lyn, managing editor of Wine & Dine magazine in Singapore. "Diners are seeking good, honest food that they can afford on a regular basis, above and beyond the occasional special meal...
...Donnell attributes his turnaround, which included a fine performance in the EIWAs, to his renewed devotion...