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The United States Senate would have made our nation's founders turn in their graves this month. The Brady Bill, a modest gun control measure that mandates a five-day waiting period before any handgun purchase, was the topic of heated debate. After hours of Republican filibustering, it finally passed...
The nouveau-riche excess of the place has not escaped Bowe, who jokingly calls the house "the Riddick Bowe Presidential Estate." But he adds, "I get a kick out of providing my family with the necessities and giving them things they don't need." Requests from his siblings have become...
The remains, which date back to 1878, were returned in order to comply with the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), which mandates that federally funded museums--such as the Peabody--itemize and offer their Native American possessions to the appropriate tribal owners.
Then there's the gender problem. Of the 66 artists on view, exactly five are women: O'Keeffe, Eva Hesse, Agnes Martin, Cindy Sherman and Jenny Holzer. You don't need to be a Guerrilla Girl to object to this. By what contorted standards of taste could Jonathan Borofsky's...
Graves called the Packwood affair "a parable of our times" which demonstrates societal acceptance of the exploitation of the vulnerable by the powerful.