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...Engler was grinning broadly. He was parading the specially prepared parchment not as a catalog of woes, but the way a general might display his enemy's head on a pike. Welfare entitlements, he announced, were dead. ``Over the weekend,'' he later joked, ``we went through the denial, the mourning and the wake.'' Nor did his diagnosis seem farfetched...
Because of a piece of parchment. John Maynard Keynes once said that practical men are the unconscious slaves of a defunct economist. Clinton's arms controllers are the conscious slaves of an obsolete treaty. Twenty-two years ago, we signed a treaty with the Soviet Union to drastically limit missile defenses. The idea was to prevent an offensive-defensive arms race and eliminate the temptation to launch a surprise attack (because an undefended attacker would be open to nuclear retaliation...
...cameras, a scene beamed to millions of people in a world nurtured for 45 years on a diet of hate and death in the arid lands of Israelis and Arabs. This, more than the Declaration of Principles, was the affirmation of a new era that watchers could believe. The parchment signed out on the lawn was a framework for interim Palestinian self- government, and it was for the archives, a document meant to bind Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization to further constructive deliberation. It was the handshake between the Israeli Prime Minister and the chairman of the P.L.O. that...
...receives both Head Start and Chapter I funds), and espousing a mix of George Bush's "thousand points of light" and Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society." To encourage the children, he has set up an elaborate system of rewards for excellence in every category, amassing a treasure of parchment certificates and glittering trophies, medals and pins he hands out amid much fanfare. The outstanding student last year received a 4- ft.-tall trophy of walnut and brass replete with winged victories and a lamp of learning. "This is what the students need," says Pannell. "They need it tangible, and they...
Caravaggio was the first Italian painter to make still life an independent subject, and Ribera follows him. The still-life details of his paintings, the luscious precise fruit bowls and the piles of books whose every parchment page is given its own stiffness and weight -- even the yellowed skulls that remind his saints (and his audience) of their mortality -- are not so much rendered as embodied. Like Caravaggio's, his early St. Jeromes and St. Sebastians seem transfixed by light, which hits them from a single-point source. In the days before gaslight, this was known as "cellar painting" because...