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...Congress could have said that no one employed on Wall St could be paid more than $100,000 for the work they did in 2008 no matter how remarkable the results. It would have, in effect, put the Treasury in a position where it was running banks at a granular level. In October ,however, the government was not nearly as close to running the banks...
...Ford, Pa., was the great problem of American modern art. He was a problem first because he so completely refused to be modern in any terms that the art world cared about or could stomach. Long after it was no longer fashionable or even permissible to practice a flinty, granular realism, Wyeth went on making pictures with the kind of brushwork that specified the world in almost molecular detail. That his technical capabilities were so apparent only made it more annoying to some critics that he wouldn't turn his back on them. Virtuosity of that kind was something that...
...eyeglasses from a famous shot of a screaming nurse in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin and perch them on a Pope's nose. In the same way, the meaning of his screaming Pontiff in Head VI fluctuates. Trapped in a kind of isolation booth, where a thunderstorm of granular black strokes rains down on him, this Pope suggests the baying, baboon madness of authority. (Indeed, one source for the painting was a photo of Joseph Goebbels in full harangue.) Yet at the same time, he's the face of the powerlessness sometimes even of absolute power...
...vested interest in what you see. In Vietnam, the wisest U.S. officials sought out journalists like David Halberstam and Bernard Fall who had spent years traveling the country, and former diplomats and military officers who had the freedom to say what they really believed. And even that kind of granular, uninhibited knowledge isn't much help without a larger view of the world. McCain thinks winning in Iraq is the single most important foreign policy challenge facing the next President. As a result, he's willing to spend billions more dollars, impose a far greater strain on the military...
...reporters and the public do not need to get granular. They don't need to see any classified information to play their natural roles in a simulation like this. Reporters could act like reporters - which means they only get what officials give them. In fact, the TOPOFF includes reporters already, but they are government employees who only pretend they work for the media. They go to "press conferences" and ask officials for comment, and the whole show is even televised - on what is called VNN (a Virtual News Network). Why can't real reporters play that role? And while...