Word: maelstroms
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...course, there is more to a presidential campaign than campaigning. The four debates are coming soon; there are the ubiquitous television commercials; and, as the week's economic maelstrom has reminded everyone, unforeseen news events can intrude on the best laid plans...
...keeping a low profile. Occasionally his critics will demonstrate against him on the streets of Little Havana, sometimes leading to verbal confrontations with his supporters. But that noise dies down fairly quickly. After last week's ruling, however, Posada may find himself once again leaving Miami for the legal maelstrom...
...practices what he preaches. Lured to Treasury from Goldman Sachs two summers ago by a President in need of domestic-policy credibility, Paulson has grabbed the rudder of a $14 trillion national economy churning its way through a maelstrom. There's always a danger in attributing too much economic impact to one government official, and Paulson certainly shares responsibility with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Congress - and with his boss, President George W. Bush. But if there is one person whose actions right now will determine whether the combination of crashing house prices, struggling lenders and punishingly high energy...
...1980s he began to work creamy flows of paint across the canvas in an all-too-plain signifier for the surface of water. But the last gallery of this show contains four vast canvases, part of a series called Bacchus that he completed in 2005. In each, a maelstrom of overlapping vermilion loops bleed thin trails of pigment toward the floor. The gods are dead? Don't tell Twombly. Even in old age, he can still summon thunder from Olympus...
...Though the tide in Rome was shifting back toward the doctrinal firmness he would come to embody, 1968 was a complicated year for Joseph Ratzinger, the current pope. According to his biographers, the then theology professor recoiled from the maelstrom of student protest and provocative behavior on the campus of Tübingen University, where he was teaching. Indeed, the following year he would move to the more conservative (and quiet) campus of the University of Regensberg...