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Many of Pantano's fellow officers believe that the case reflects the gap between the way military leaders prefer to portray the war in Iraq to the public and the way it is actually being fought. "The single biggest problem with the Iraq operation is that the military is at war but the nation is not," says an officer. A former Marine colonel who served for 27 years says the Marine Corps "always values its reputation and image. They want to act and be known as the good guys. They are very mindful of how they are perceived both domestically...
Livingstone and her colleague Bevil Conway, who happens to be a stereoblind painter, found later that Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings—which are mirror images of the original—portray an averted right eye. Armed with ample evidence, Livingstone and Conway concluded that Rembrandt was indeed stereoblind, a syndrome that may have helped him produce three-dimensional paintings...
Rembrandt’s stereoblindness rendered him highly attune to three-dimensionality and enabled him to portray depth by simply painting what...
...found myself ruing the death of avant-garde art at the hands of mass-production and censorship, even as I still struggled with the classification of Lovelace, Reems, and Damiano as “artists” of the first rank. Inside Deep Throat, with its attempt to portray the American tragedy of the rise and fall of the self-made man (and woman), overreaches and ultimately misses its mark, but provides a thoroughly entertaining portrait of pornographic pop culture, its peddlers, and its consumers...
...submitted his whopping $2.57 trillion proposal to Congress last week, it showed how the war on terrorism has come home to roost. Both the Defense and Homeland Security departments get boosts, while many domestic programs for the poor, like vocational education and Medicaid, take a hit. Bush's aides portray him as Dr. No, turning down pleas from Cabinet Secretaries. But he's not standing in the way of two juicy repeals of taxes on the wealthy, scheduled to take effect next year. Here's a guide to the budget's winners and losers. --By Matthew Cooper and Massimo Calabresi...