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...Alexandria on Dec. 21, ostensibly contained a holiday greeting of some kind. But unlike most Christmas cards, the envelope seemed oddly "heavy and kind of bumpy." So instead of tearing the packet open directly, Sandarusi, 34, laid it down on his desk, inserted a pair of scissors beneath the flap and carefully snipped across the top. Inside, he spotted a green wire protruding from two layers of cellophane. Neatly sandwiched between them was a wad of plastic explosives sufficient to blow up Sandarusi and anyone else who might have been in the room at the time...
...might think that after Michael Brown's FEMA fiasco, the White House would try to avoid any appearance of cronyism in job appointments requiring technical expertise. You might think that after the Plan B contraceptive flap and safety problems with drugs like Vioxx, it would seek to avoid controversy while picking someone to run the embattled Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Think again...
...vivid memories of his earliest years. Yet certain details, like when he was born, got lost on the way. "Normally, I give the date of Jan. 1, 1980. But ask 50,000 child soldiers and they will all tell you Jan. 1," Jal says with a chuckle and a flap of his long, expressive hands. He's remembering his friends, with whom he was sent, aged about 7, to Ethiopia to escape the vicious civil war between Sudan's Christian south, where he was born, and the Muslim north. In Ethiopia, the boys were given books and English lessons...
When George W. Bush met with the Northwestern women's lacrosse team, their flip-flops caused a flap. Must shoes be conservative in the White House? Or is this Administration more footloose and fancy free? --By Logan Orlando...
...kind of work gave Tuttle the insight crucial to his later career: that meaning could be achieved with the bare minimum of means. It paved the way for later pieces like New Mexico, New York #14, in which a looping form is superimposed on an irregular rectangle with a flap that resembles an envelope. In a sense, it is an envelope--what looks at first like a minimalist abstraction is also a yearning road picture, a conflation of the circuit Tuttle travels between his homes in New York and New Mexico and the letters he writes to keep in touch...