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Since then Serra has had few public commissions in America, and much of his major work has been done in Europe--for example, Exchange, 1996, a soaring array of seven trapezoidal slabs, 65 ft. high, propped together over a highway traffic circle outside Luxembourg City. The chance to see any number of his large pieces together is rare. They tend to be too big for museums, too heavy for their floors, and their installation is brutally costly. And so the current show of seven new pieces, the Torqued Ellipses, in the Geffen Contemporary building at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary...
Lott was also joined by a majority of his fellow Republicans in a spate of anti-gay amendments to federal spending bills. And in one of the most inane displays of anti-gay prejudice, the Senate has refused to consider the nomination of James Hormel as ambassador to Luxembourg because he is gay and proud. Meanwhile, legislation that would protect gays and lesbians from being fired from their jobs because of their sexual orientation continues to languish in committee...
...Dickerson. "But the Democrats are taking their shots." Gay rights groups are understandably indignant. And Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Democrat, wants to use the furor to break the deadlock over the nomination of James Hormel -- an openly gay San Francisco philanthopist -- who was tapped to be ambassador to Luxembourg. Sensing a way to make points with the GOP's right wing, Lott has kept Hormel's nomination tied up for a year. But Wellstone's initiative notwithstanding, Dickerson says Hormel is no closer to Luxembourg. "Lott promised that he'd sit on the nomination, and that's what...
...with an extraneous provision attached to it that would ban federal funding of family-planning organizations abroad that condone abortion as an option. But the most obvious nod to religious conservatives in the Senate involves the blockage of Clinton's nomination of James Hormel to be U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg. Hormel is standard ambassadorial material--a businessman, a philanthropist, a former law school dean and, of course, a big-money donor to the Democratic Party. Under ordinary circumstances, Hormel's nomination would have sailed through the Senate with little notice. But Hormel, 65, is gay and a prominent advocate...
This "cash-interest phenomenon" may sound trivial, but it's a link to a whole other revolution in finance: the dissolution of the government monopoly on money. After all, if some small bank in Luxembourg or Belize is willing to pay you more interest on your digital cash, who are you to argue? As long as the bank's digits are widely accepted, there is no need to stick with government-issued numbers. Government money will still exist, but so will dozens of other currencies, each tailored to a specific need and endlessly convertible and exchangeable. The best money...