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Michael Scanlon, who is Abramoff's former partner and has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a Congressman, in 2001 told the New Times of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that Abramoff had "a relationship" with the President. "He doesn't have a bat phone or anything, but if he wanted an appointment, he would have one," Scanlon said. Nonsense, say others. A former White House official familiar with some Abramoff requests to the White House said Abramoff had some meetings with Administration officials in 2001 and 2002, but he was later frozen out because aides became suspicious of his funding sources...
...April 30 are works ironically recasting mass-produced objects into indigenous artifacts, such as Indian masks constructed from basketball sneakers, as well as a sculpture that transforms cheap plastic chairs into a whale skeleton. Jungen, who was raised on Danezaa Indian land north of the remote logging town of Fort St. John, British Columbia, and moved to Vancouver as a teenager, is of mixed Indian-Swiss parentage. His origins inform his best-known work, Prototypes for New Understanding, a series that features Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic...
WHAT I DID OVER CHRISTMAS BREAK Most teenagers would consider sneaking off to a party enough excitement for the holidays. FARRIS HASSAN, 16, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., stole away to a war zone. Hassan, the U.S.-born son of Iraqi Americans, wanted to travel to Baghdad to better understand the plight of Iraq's citizens. "I thought I'd go the extra mile for that or, rather, a few thousand miles," says Hassan, who left the U.S. Dec. 11, notifying his family in an e-mail from the road. The teen bought a $900 plane ticket to Kuwait with money...
...passenger seat, was initially flown to a hospital in a Green Zone in Baghdad, he said. He was then flown to a hospital in Germany and finally to the U.S., where he arrived at what he considers home—the base of the 101st Airborne Division in Fort Campbell, Ky.Morris said he is now undergoing physical therapy in order to rebuild the muscle in his leg.“I hope to be back up and running within three months, but it all depends on how long it takes for my leg to heal,” he said.Major...
...limited nature of photographic realism is just one of the weighty themes explored in this exhilarating exhibition, which runs in Tokyo until Jan. 9 before moving to the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and then to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. The retrospective spans 30 years, incorporating 104 of Sugimoto's best works, pieces that bring fresh insight to philosophical dualities such as permanence and transience, perception and experience, time and nothingness. While Sugimoto, 57, has been the focus of one-man shows at the Guggenheim in Bilbao...