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...world is the single most effective strategy we can employ to foster global peace and defeat the rising tide of extremism. That does not mean Kerry has to concede the Iraq debate to Bush—that would be like FDR forfeiting the issue of economic management to Herbert Hoover...
...league baseball stadium in Pennsylvania that the new jobs proved "our growing economy is spreading prosperity and opportunity." The John Kerry camp, meanwhile, argued that the number didn't even keep up with population growth. Said the Democratic challenger: "Bush is now certain to be the first President since Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression who didn't create a single new job." According to the poll, the economy is tied with terrorism as the most important campaign issue. So which candidate has the better plan...
...DIED. HERBERT HAFT, 84, pharmacist and discount-store pioneer; in Washington. Haft opened his first shop, Dart Drug, in 1955, and slashed prices on everything from nonprescription drugs to toothpaste. Sued by manufacturers who set prices, Haft ultimately prevailed in a 1960 Supreme Court ruling that triggered a retailing revolution. A family struggle for control of his empire in the early 1990s sundered his marriage and left some of his holdings bankrupt. Haft ceded control in 1997, taking a $50 million settlement...
...color and that adjoining dots of different hue would be blended by the eye. Adjacent spots of blue and yellow, for instance, would create a joint aureole of green. From that idea Seurat developed his pointillist technique. But the Chicago show, which was guest-curated by scholar Robert L. Herbert, takes pains to remind us that Seurat was never truly bound to it. In an age that worshipped science - even socialism had been made ?scientific? - pointillism appeared to lend his art the authority of science. But Seurat gained that not so much by following scientific practices as by evoking them...
...Zedong during the Cultural Revolution as a capitalist roader and an archrevisionist, Deng rejoined the Chinese leadership in 1972-73 under the auspices of Premier Zhou Enlai. It was just at that time that the U.S. arrived permanently in Beijing with its Liaison Office, headed in 1974 by George Herbert Walker Bush. When these two men met, Deng?the short, tough revolutionary from Sichuan in central China?and Bush?the tall, ambitious and smart ?litist from America's Northeast?the chemistry was immediate. Deng saw Bush as an American who some day would lead his country, and Bush...