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...Born in Port Arthur, Texas, Rauschenberg, now 80, arrived in New York by way of Black Mountain College in North Carolina, the training ground of the '50s avant-garde, where he had befriended the composer John Cage. Cage's ideas about chance and randomness fascinated Rauschenberg, who began scavenging the streets of New York for junk to incorporate into works like Satellite, in which a stuffed pheasant presides atop a canvas patchworked with fabric and photo images and covered with washes of paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Misfits | 5/13/2008 | See Source »

...Thursday, a few government trucks were ferrying water and medicine to the delta from the commercial capital of Rangoon, which was also hit by the cyclone. But a few dozen trucks will do little to allay the vast destruction. In Bogalay, once a prosperous trading port, one third of buildings have collapsed. At a jetty along the Irrawady, two nearly week-old bodies, an adult and a child, lay among the storm's detritus of plywood, bamboo and coconut husks. Near the corpses, people went about their lives, tying bamboo poles together to build temporary lodging and jostling for limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma: Death on the Irrawaddy | 5/9/2008 | See Source »

Crocker assured Congress that we are making progress. The Iraqi government retook the port of Basra that week, Iraq's main export terminal. And now that the government is in full control of Iraq's oil infrastructure things will get better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the Iraq Oil Card | 5/9/2008 | See Source »

...conference, Carmen Marcos, chief coin curator for Spain's National Archaeology Museum, said that limited, preliminary evidence suggested that the pieces of eight recovered from the ship were minted in 1803 in the then-Spanish colony of Peru. "The coins show us that the ship had recently left the port of El Callao in Lima. Of that, there is no doubt," she said. Historical documents that Spain presented today show that the Mercedes left El Callao in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain Claims Sunken Treasure | 5/8/2008 | See Source »

...self-cultivation, self-direction, self-understanding, and creativity. It is this potential that we regard as crucial and to which we appeal, not to the human potentiality for violence, unreason, and submission to authority,” the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) wrote in their 1962 Port Huron Statement, expressing their optimism toward man’s potential to govern his own life and change his world in the face of racial discrimination and the existence of the Bomb. The students in SDS were confident that they could obliterate the loneliness, estrangement, and isolation that separated man from...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Samuels: Too Much Love | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

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