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...idea was on its way to becoming bipartisan reality. After all, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros had already proposed that the nation's 3 million public-housing residents be given vouchers to spend where they please on rent. And how could Dole's fellow free-market Republicans object to housing vouchers--a system that relies on the market, not government, to determine how and where poor people live, a system first instituted by Presidents Nixon and Ford and strongly supported by Reagan...
...example of using words like race to sell books. The unfortunate consequence of this could be a discrediting of their reputations and a numbing to more important racial discourses (that both men have themselves written). For example, affirmative action has been so exploited that it has become the object of many jokes. In the "Black in America" issue, there is a cartoon of black politician standing at a podium; the caption reads, "And, if elected, I promise to put more black people in cartoons." Another features three aliens in a spaceship, one reading a memo, saying "It's from headquarters...
Experienced auctiongoers understood that the estimated sales prices in the Sotheby's catalog reflected an assessor's evaluation of fair market value, i.e., what an object would bring if it did not possess the added cachet of having belonged to someone famous. For things owned by Jackie, fair market value was obviously, at least to those familiar with the occult workings of renown, just the starting point. The tension and electricity in the auction room hummed around the question: How high the markup...
Crane is the object of a tactic that is proving increasingly effective--going after local targets just below the national media radar. Even while the Christian right's media-savvy national leaders are downplaying antigay initiatives, its local soldiers are working to raise the issue that America's young people are being exposed to gay alternatives too early in life. By pitching the attack closer to home, where parental fears are more easily aroused, conservatives are extending their influence while escaping the tough scrutiny that has greeted their more visible campaign in statehouses to ban same-sex marriages...
...Sung painters, their renderings of mountain landscape--awesome in scale but without theatrical drama, the bare crags rising in swirls and convulsions of gray ink as the background to intensely seen trees and tiny human figures--achieved a relationship between notation and object that would make any draftsman, Eastern or Western, faint with envy. The blots, scribbles, hatchings, scumblings and flicks of the brush build up a world of microforms that seems at once abstract and dense with specific experience. No wonder Beijing wants all this back; no wonder Taipei is determined to keep...