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...result, when you see artillery fire from the Dems it's usually directed at the Bush Administration, not Bush himself. One favorite whipping boy is Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels. Democrat Kent Conrad, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, practically accused him in hearings last week of going to the Enron School of Accounting in drafting the federal budget. The other target is Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. He got into a silly spat last week with the Democrats' senior senator, Robert Byrd, over which one of them came from the humblest beginnings...
...Enronization" of budget politics has begun. To wit: Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad says he was driving to work Monday morning and the thought occurred to him that "the biggest problem with Enron was that they were hiding debt - hiding it from their shareholders, hiding it from creditors, hiding it from themselves. I think that's exactly what the federal government is doing. The federal government is now engaged in hiding and understating debt...
...Gilbert was a scab in a 1989 movie; Gilbert was forced to send out an e-mail explaining why she was too busy to appear at SAG strike events last year (birthday parties, dying dog, nanny quitting, husband Bruce Boxleitner's knee surgery). Victorious Actors Moving Forward treasurer candidate Kent McCord, of Adam-12, said, "I have never seen an attempt to obliterate the truth in the manner the Melissa Gilbert campaign has." The election was seen by many as a referendum on Harper-supporting outgoing president William Daniels, the voice of Knight Rider's K.I.T.T., who was faulted...
...spirited?and creatively seizing the moment with a large survey exhibition, "Facts of Life," at London's Hayward Gallery. "It is a time in which there is a profound sense of anxiety about the future as well as a strong sense of self-reflection and analysis," says curator Rachel Kent, who has brought nine emerging Japanese artists and their work to Australia for "NEO-TOKYO: Japanese Art Now," which runs at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art until...
...circle. With their primary colors and beatific expressions, Yoshitomo Nara's Little Pilgrims (Nightwalkers), 1998, could be the Teletubbies?until one notices they are swaddled in bandages. These enigmatic figures are portraits of "a generation that somehow lost its way and is facing an uncertain future," says curator Kent, "a damaged generation." In this sense, "NEO-TOKYO" is very much the art of post-traumatic healing...