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...settlement in Bosnia have been hoping Milosevic, smarting under tough U.N. economic sanctions, was preparing to recognize the Bosnian state and force the rebel Serbs to sit down to work out an agreement. That might still be true, with the taking of the enclaves a last-stage land grab after which the Bosnian Serbs will be ready to negotiate a peace...
Whistler's Mother remains his most famous painting--up there in the peculiar grab bag of images that for one reason or another, usually unconnected with their quality as art, everyone knows, like the Mona Lisa and Grant Wood's American Gothic. The picture that made his reputation was earlier, and better. Painted in 1862, it is a portrait of his Irish lover, Jo Hiffernan, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. Shown in London first and then in Paris, it provoked a buzz of irrelevant interpretation. The expressionless young woman in virginal white, standing on a wolfskin with...
...Perhaps because hard-core sex pictures are so widely available elsewhere, the adult BBS market seems to be driven largely by a demand for images that can't be found in the average magazine rack: pedophilia (nude photos of children), hebephilia (youths) and what the researchers call paraphilia--a grab bag of "deviant" material that includes images of bondage, sadomasochism, urination, defecation, and sex acts with a barnyard full of animals...
...found his culprits. Says Nancy: "It was like, boy, here we go, this makes sense. You know, because they have control of the media. They have a big influence in government. They have a large influence in the banking world, so they're going to, you know, power-grab. And it was-it all fits. It clicked...
...enemy has almost reached the point where he can touch the golden ring," Koernke intones in the video. "All their different schemes, plotting and conniving have come to a nexus, a point in time at which they have the opportunity to grab everything." The only hope, he declares, lies in inducing the conspirators to act prematurely, before their confederates in the Federal Government have managed to completely disarm the Patriots. "If we are lucky, we can get them to move too quickly." War on American soil is probably inevitable. "Did I say it was going to be a short...