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DIED. ORVILLE FREEMAN, 84, ex-Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson; of complications from Alzheimer's disease; in Minneapolis. After supporting Hubert Humphrey's failed bid, he gave Kennedy's nominating speech at the 1960 Democratic Convention. Later, in his White House post, he expanded food aid to the poor and promoted aid to developing nations...
...evolving portrait of Van Gogh as traced by the wide-ranging - and often surprising - roster of artists and works he admired. It ain't all Rembrandt, by any means, and along with Dürer, Honoré Daumier and Delacroix are unlikelier inspirations, such as Fritz von Uhde, Hubert von Herkomer and Albert Besnard. But the obscure artists are an intriguing piece of the artist's aesthetic puzzle, and some of them are, as Van Gogh said, "damned good." The museum's researchers have tallied references to more than 1,100 artworks in Van Gogh's copious correspondence: 485 paintings...
...late senator's sons have reportedly asked Mondale personally to consider filling the void left by their father's death. Other potential candidates include state Supreme Court justice Alan Page, state attorney general Mike Hatch and Skip Humphrey, former state attorney general and son of former Vice President Hubert Humphrey. (The candidate who takes Wellstone's place will face a short campaign: By Wednesday, only six days will remain before the November 5 elections...
...rules, befriend potential allies on both sides of the aisle, and learn to compromise. But he didn't give up his principles doing it. Some critics argued he could afford to be so liberal because he was from Minnesota, home to such icons of the left as Hubert Humphrey and Walter Mondale. But today's Minnesota is not so liberal. When Wellstone launched his first campaign in 1990, both incumbent senators were Republicans. In 1998, the state decided a professional wrestler would make a good governor. Today's Minnesota is fairly well split between conservatives, moderates and liberals. In fact...
After the service, Jane W. Sapp, who taught at Miles with her husband Hubert Sapp, said the day's tributes had revived memories of the years she worked alongside Monro...