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...Gluck amassed a body of historians, including museum advisory-board member Luc Sante, to assist in putting the collection together, along with help from the Kinsey Institute and the Lesbian Herstory Archives. Gluck also bought the "Ralph Whittington Collection," a U-Haul of porn previously owned by Ralph Whittington, 57, a retired Library of Congress curator who lives with his mother near Washington and who kept the world's largest professionally catalogued collection of pornography, carefully labeled in bingo-card boxes that his mother brought home from church. His approach to collecting is far more passionate than that...
...House Energy and Commerce Committee, said he had consulted Anschutz on all major decisions. Now committee staff members plan to question Anschutz again on the deals, and if Democrats get their way, on his sale of $2 billion in Qwest stock before it cratered--twice as big a haul as that of any other corporate insider. The committee's renewed interest may quiet suspicions that Anschutz's Republican ties--he is a major G.O.P. donor--have shielded him until now. Says committee spokesman Ken Johnson: "If you're a corporate crook, Democrat or Republican, we're going to kneecap...
...little too sweet to complement a meal,” he says. So if fall brings memories of Granny Smiths and apple pies, try one of the many apple martinis on a chilly evening and experience the joys of the season without having to haul all the way out to the apple orchard...
John Jones, 48, harvested less than half his usual haul of wheat this year. His millet, a grain used in birdseed, hasn't even germinated. The field is an expanse of naked earth surrounded by burned-out pastures. "In June it looked like September, and it's just getting worse," Jones says...
...Pakistan, which had long been a principal hub for militants, armed Sunni extremist movements had enjoyed the complicity of successive governments. But General Pervez Musharraf has decided to smash these movements in exchange for strong backing by the U.S. It will be a long, hard haul. As the killings of American journalist Daniel Pearl and 11 French engineers in Karachi demonstrate, General Musharraf is not yet out of the woods--especially given Pakistan's endemic state of cold war with India over Kashmir. But one year after Sept. 11, Southwest Asia has neither exploded nor risen up at the instigation...