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...PORTRAIT OF PRESIDENT GRAY
...curators’ endeavors resulted in the hanging of the first portrait of a woman on the walls of the Faculty room in the mid-1990s...
...just a whim on the author's part: Mortals comes with the whole special-ops toy chest, including secret signals, micro-recorders, coded transmissions and even a violent and extended mission into the bush. This could have the effect of cleaving the novel into two incompatible halves--a portrait of a marriage and a political thriller--but Rush merges the two successfully and somewhat shockingly, when the doctor who is the target of Ray's surveillance becomes Iris' psychiatrist, neatly short-circuiting Ray's heretofore hermetically separate identities and violently abolishing his sense of certainty in every truth he ever...
...regain economic stability. MEANWHILE IN THE U.S. ... COLOR MY WORLD The Missile Defense Agency, part of the U.S. Department of Defense, handed out coloring books to children during Public Service Recognition Week in Washington, D.C. The book includes a variety of patriotic images, such as a portrait of Ronald Reagan, a map of the U.S., an "Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle" and other types of ballistic missiles. The crayons that came with the book were made in China, a country listed as capable of targeting the U.S. with its own drab green weapons...
...controversy is really an extension of a long-standing debate: Does explaining Hitler's evil mean excusing it? In fact, Hitler: The Rise of Evil (May 18 and 20, 9 p.m. E.T.) is far from a glowing portrait. "People said, 'Don't you run the risk of humanizing Hitler?''' says executive producer Peter Sussman. "I don't think that's a risk. We're showing that he walked and lived among us." Sussman did take pains to be sensitive, ordering that all the Nazi uniforms and props be burned after shooting, so none would end up on eBay...