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...agenda, while the government decides which information to release and what secrets to leak. The media and the government share a symbiotic relationship, manipulating and reacting to each other. The media-governmental nexus is a single institution, and it possesses ultimate political power in our society; those outside the loop, namely you, the readers, are passive observers of the institution which actually governs our nation...
...begin with the granddaddy of Bush's ethical difficulties--his mysterious role in the Iran-contra debacle. Bush has said that he was out of the loop with respect to the diversion of funds from arms sales to the contras. We can take the president at his word on this, even though Bush's position at the time on the National Security Council and his close contact with those involved makes his assertions a little hard to believe...
...also true that the candidates persist in being evasive about questionable episodes in their past. In Bush's case, it is what he knew as Ronald Reagan's Vice President about the Iran-contra scandal. His continued claim that he was "out of the loop" or "excluded from key meetings" when this murky, subterranean scheme was being hatched in the upper echelons of the Reagan Administration has been constantly challenged, notably by a 1987 memo dictated to an aide by former Secretary of State George Shultz...
...Iran-contra. The credibility of Bush's repeated insistence that he was "not in the loop" on the arms-for-hostages deal has been steadily eroded. Documents revealed in early September suggest that despite his claims to the contrary, Bush knew in early 1986 of objections to the sale by Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
European modernism "primitivized" Johnson, as though a feedback loop were running from the Cubists' and Expressionists' use of tribal African art to a black artist in a Danish fishing village. "I myself feel like a primitive man," he told an interviewer in 1935, echoing the modernist founding fathers (Gauguin, Van Gogh), "like one who is at the same time both a primitive and a cultured painter." In essence, as the sculptor Martin Puryear points out in the catalog, European modernism let Johnson see himself anew; it provoked him into negotiating "his racial dilemma as a black artist moving between several...