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...people are a red-dirt block away at the Pintupi Homelands Health Service, checking out their art movement's latest venture. Papunya Tula - a name suggested to Bardon by artist Charlie Tararu - is Pintupi for "honey ant meeting place," and on Nov. 11, a meeting place it is. A plane has descended on Kintore, and Pintupi elders mix with health officials, fine-art specialists and more camp dogs than you can poke a stick at. "What an amazing combination," notes Peter Toyne, the Northern Territory's Health Minister. "The most remote community in Australia and the international art market working...
...Diego, apparently by three men from southern Mexico who assaulted a watchman and then flew off in a southerly direction. Though the theft's connection to terrorism remains unclear, a senior U.S. law-enforcement official notes that crop dusters can be used to disperse toxic substances. The plane, stolen at night two weeks ago, has not been recovered...
...team’s plane left Boston late Friday night, so the sailors missed their connecting flight and arrived in Charleston early Saturday morning...
...which sounded nice--except that Kerry didn't buy any of it. When he saw the gauzy stump speech his staff had produced from the memo, Kerry told the advisers aboard his plane--Shrum, Sasso, Cutter and McCurry--that the last thing he could afford now was to start sounding like Oprah. Not while Americans were hearing of hostage beheadings and car bombs every night on the news; not while Bush and Cheney were stoking the voters' fears with ads about wolves in the forest and hints of a postelection nuclear holocaust. A warm and fuzzy message now, Kerry said...
There were other changes as well. Respected longtime adviser John Sasso moved from the Democratic National Committee to the campaign plane, where he cut through the clutter that had so often surrounded decisions that had to be made on the spot and offered the mature sounding board that Kerry had been missing. Kerry's traveling staff took to calling Sasso "the Wolf," after Harvey Keitel's fixer character in Pulp Fiction. The old hands like Cahill, Cutter and Shrum remained in place, leaving everyone to wonder how well the campaign would function with two camps vying to guide it through...