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Even Franklin Roosevelt was posthumously excoriated for "giving away" Eastern Europe to Joseph Stalin at Yalta (rhymes with Malta). Harry Truman stood up to Stalin at Potsdam and hung tough over Iran, Berlin and Korea, but he still ended up being pilloried by a couple of junior Senators named Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon. It was Nixon who called Truman's Secretary of State the dean of the "cowardly college of Communist containment." Two decades later, the New Nixon's policy of detente ran into a buzz saw of bipartisan anti-Soviet opposition. When a Watergate-wounded Nixon went...
Where a painting might have been, museum staff members hung a blank black canvas...
...nearby Carpenter Center, staffmembers hung panels of blank black and white paperwhich "symbolized the unrealized potential ofartists that died with AIDS," said Cynthia Hadzi,exhibition coordinator at the center...
...phone when it went off around 3:35," Dowling said. "I thought it was disconnected so I hung up and tried to call back but I couldn...
...inside a garbage disposal and nearly getting cooked in a toaster -- are seen from the angle of the creatures themselves. "If I were an ant looking out from an electrical socket," Van Allsburg explains, "the long slits in which the light poured in would look like 15-ft. doorways hung in space." And so they...