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...JEAN HOUSTON She helped Hillary "talk" to Eleanor R. so she could "write" her "book...
...Jean Rogers, who directs W-2, countered that "in the real world, families make [child-care] decisions based on a number of qualities and situations." When she talked to welfare recipients while drafting W-2, she says, "the single most common response was that they thought child care should be made more flexible so that friends and relatives would be able to receive the subsidy...
...baby was born, that would have been legal and the press would have supported their actions. One wonders why this fact is not mentioned. Why is a culture that aggrandizes self so surprised every time selfishness hits the headlines? These amoral teenagers are what our culture has made them. JEAN HARMON Silver Spring, Maryland...
...suicide on July 27, 1890, the work was estimated at $40 million in the late 1980s. But in 1989 the French government declared it a "national monument" and forbade its exportation, thus torpedoing its worth on the international art market. Collector Jacques Walter auctioned it off to banker Jean-Marc Vernes for $11 million in 1992; he then sued the French government for "spoliating" its value, and, incredibly, Walter won $29 million in compensation. After Vernes died last spring, his widow put the picture up for sale...
Meanwhile, despite the assurances of the world's top Van Gogh experts, doubts about the painting's authenticity began to circulate among an international coterie of art enthusiasts. Stylistically, says Jean-Marie Tasset, art critic for the French daily Figaro, the serene canvas is "atypical" of the frenetic paintings made during the artist's last days. The central walkway is done in a pointillist manner virtually unprecedented in Van Gogh's late works...