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...Wilbur Ross and Stephen Schwarzman and the cream of Houston high society. Cason Thrash flew her Los Angeles decorator in and says she was so nervous about the arrangements that "by 6 p.m., I was looking for a cyanide capsule." This wasn't any old fund raiser: it was held for the Louvre, in the Louvre, in the vaulted Galerie Daru beneath the Winged Victory of Samothrace. There, seated at two long, mirrored tables and surrounded by 2,000-year-old statues of Roman Emperors, the guests dined on asparagus soufflé and veal noisettes before moving on to a charity...
...other big complaint is about the contemporary art. Fumaroli wrote an indignant article about the biggest show to date, an exhibition earlier this summer of works by Belgian artist Jan Fabre that was held in galleries containing Dutch and Flemish masterpieces. Among the highlights: a gigantic earthworm wriggling on upended gravestones in the Rubens room. The show was part of a series designed to give visitors a new perspective on old works. "It's important to have polyphony around the collection," Loyrette says. But Fumaroli dismissed it as pantalonnades--pantomime...
...then, on July 28, Barack Obama held an economic summit with his covey of advisers - people like Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, Warren Buffett, Bob Reich; experts who seemed a sedimentary layer more recent than McCain's crowd but still more a part of the past than of the future. They had cleaned up the Reagan-era mess. They had actually balanced the budget and created a surplus. They had - contra voodoo - raised taxes and yet produced an economic boom. There was a fair amount of argument behind closed doors, I'm told, between the two groups that sparred...
...failed to inspire. George W. Bush, by contrast, campaigned on a story fully intended to appeal as much to the heart as the brain. In the Republican tale, Bush was a strong leader ready to take on a dangerous world, while Kerry was a "flip-flopper" who held his finger to the wind. Or as Carville crudely put it, Bush effectively told the country, "I'm going to protect you from terrorists in Tehran and the homos in Hollywood...
...Pragmatic objectives such as halting Palestinian rocket fire out of Gaza and recovering a kidnapped Israeli soldier being held there have prompted the Israelis to abandon their own taboo against dealing with Hamas and negotiate a cease-fire via Egypt. Those pragmatic imperatives will remain even after Olmert has left the scene, as will the ones that prompted Israel to begin negotiating with Syria via Turkey this past spring, in the hope that Damascus can be detached from Iran - something officials close to the Syrian leadership have told TIME will not happen. And the effort to press for action against...