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Without question, Saint-Gaudens was one of the most fluent sculptors that ever lived, and his clients demanded fluency. He could and did turn his hand to anything, from a 10-ft. stone profile on a pyramid in Wyoming to the design of the century's most beautiful coin, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: American Renaissance Man | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

They provided a convenient time to work on his journals, notes and thoughts about decades of travel, editing, guest teaching, committee work, freelancing and generally keeping up with friends and the literary network on both sides of the Atlantic. The impression left is of a benevolent man who dolefully plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Confessions of a Public Son, JOURNALS: 1939-1983 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

While the sudden air strike strained relations among America's allies, Libya was equally at odds with a few of its friends. "The Kremlin got some real heat last week from its Arab allies for not showing more support for Gaddafi," said a Western diplomat in Moscow. To correct that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Nearly All Together Now | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Despite the Administration's tough policy toward Libya, its position on other countries linked to terrorism, particularly Syria and Iran, sometimes appeared confused. In an interview with Washington columnists, President Reagan seemed to indicate that the U.S. was ready to strike against those countries if it had evidence tying them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya: Nearly All Together Now | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Atop the dismal failure rate, an additional 20% of those originally offered the test refused to take it, most for fear of revealing their illiteracy. From these results, Barnes projects that 17 million to 21 million adults in the U.S. cannot read. And this is only some of the bad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Losing the War of Letters | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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