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...Eliasson, one of the most agreeable and least self-regarding people I know who also happens to be a Major International Art Brand, is entirely aware of all that. At the press conference yesterday you could hear him trying to acknowledge those purposes while still nudging the conversation over to the other things The Waterfalls should be, to disentangle them from that web of municipal expectations and moral purposes and point people towards their lyrical purposelessness. I found myself thinking about another work by Eliasson, Beauty, a tiny triumph of makeshift lyricism. In a darkened room, electric light is aimed...
...Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which he championed with Democrat Russ Feingold. Although the act contained landmark transparency provisions, outside influence on elections is still pervasive, with 527 groups like the anti-John Kerry organization Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the liberal group MoveOn.org's Voter Fund playing major roles in the last presidential election. This year's election will be the most expensive in history - presidential candidates have already raised over $900 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And that's not counting the millions in the coffers of the parties, political action committees and advocacy...
...decisions - turned out to be short-lived and is all but forgotten as Gates remakes himself as a philanthropist. But the court's decree forced the great general to march cautiously into the future. He may have won the Battle of the Browser, but he would start to see major casualties in the Internet...
...Appeals decision cited Lawrence in holding for the first time that the military's exclusion of openly gay members must be based on more than simple moral disapproval of homosexuals. That case has been sent back to lower courts for further proceedings, but is already seen as a major challenge to the "don't ask, don't tell" policy of the U.S. Armed Forces...
...take note, in some cases disapprovingly, of the presumptive Democratic nominee's efforts to shuffle to the political center. As any Republican will tell you, the National Journal ranked Obama the most liberal member of the Senate. And in the primaries Obama took routinely liberal positions on all the major issues of the day. But in tone as well as in substance, Obama has started making the traditional general election move to the middle. His first television spot of the general election was biographical, focusing on his love of family and country, and highlighting his legislative efforts "to move people...