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After Ford decided to reduce the FAS subsidy to PBHA by annual increments of $5,000, phasing it out entirely by 1973, PBHA requested line-item status on the FAS budget and a permanent subsidy from the Faculty...
...been hard for KATHIE LEE GIFFORD to stay perky recently. Having recovered from the embarrassing disclosure that her Wal-Mart clothing line was made in Honduran sweatshops, she was told that one item, a faux-antique blouse, was manufactured in a New York City plant where workers were grossly underpaid. Gifford didn't hesitate. She dispatched her husband, TV sports presenter Frank, to hand out envelopes containing $300 each to some of the workers--accompanied by a publicist, natch...
Iraq is finally cooperating well enough with United Nations monitoring to be allowed to sell oil for food and medicine. Hearing that news, I couldn't help wondering whether I should have been able to predict some movement toward flexibility in Baghdad when I noticed an Associated Press item last March that began, "Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has ordered an end to the practice of cutting off the ears of army deserters and draft dodgers...
...Boris Yeltsin futures at the Russian stock market in downtown Moscow. Every day at 4:36 p.m., youthful brokers with code names like "Father," "Moon" and "Winter" buy and sell contracts pegged to whatever percentage of the vote they believe the Russian President will receive on election day. Since item Ye-1606-V began trading April 22, Yeltsin's projected total, registered in flashing orange lights on a big digital board, has jumped 10 points, to around 28.50--about equal to the quote for the Communist candidate, Gennadi Zyuganov. These speculators may care more about making a profit than about...
...that was, by turns, scabrous, brazenly rhetorical and morally obsessed. Compared with the thin, overconceptualized gruel that most political art in postmodern America has become--the stuff the Whitney normally favors--Kienholz was red meat all the way. Which doesn't mean that his output was uniformly good. An item like The Ozymandias Parade, 30 ft. long and including hundreds of figures, from life-size horses to tiny toy Indians and frogs, wants to impress you so much it becomes a fulsome, preachy bore...