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...traveled as far as Portland, Ore., to serve teacher Andy Bleiler with a subpoena and grab those mysterious documents from his safety deposit box. Negotiations are under way with the Secret Service over how their agents can testify without breaking too much of their customary code of silence ? a Gordian knot if ever there...
KYOTO, Japan: One day left for the 160 nations gathered at the climate change conference to cut the Gordian knot of global warming, and the U.S. is keeping its greenhouse gas treaty bottom line close to its chest. "We are close to a solution," claimed the Argentine chairman Raul Estrada, who is preparing a draft agreement for industrial nations ? but that doesn't jibe with China?s intention to nix anything that inhibits its economic growth. Many senators have already said they won't ratify any treaty that doesn't have China's name...
...Crimson; the Crimson has made some effort to attract Latinos and African-Americans to the paper this recent semester. Minorities who are interested in writing should comp, knowing that as a student paper, it should be as much their paper as anyone else's. Regrettably, like a Gordian Knot, minorities will never feel comfortable at the Crimson until there are more minorities at the Crimson, which will not happen until they feel comfortable at the Crimson...It is up to the Crimson's new editors to spearhead the effort to untie this knot and move the Crimson into the diverse...
Regardless, Morrisroe has created a memorable portrait. She knows her subject well, though in the end, it was Mapplethorpe who may have been his own best critic. In a chilly bit of self analysis, a passage that comes closest to untying what Morrisroe calls the "Gordian knot" entwining art and sexuality. Mapplethorpe says: "When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera I forget I exist...
...efforts to unravel the Gordian knot which now has choked and indeed, threatens to eliminate the "Mother of the art movement" (the Sert Gallery Exhibition Program at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts) within this institution. I have been awakened more clearly than ever before to the absolute necessity for the Le Corbusier edifice at 24 Quincy Street to put its house in order, and for the administration of this institution to sever the outdated, inextricable bonds of budgetary and administrative decision- making which still bind together the two separate entities of the Carpenter Center and the Department...