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Just hours before an international press event at Art Basel last June, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) director Michael Govan faced unexpected trouble. The architectural model highlighting LACMA'S renovation and expansion plans had arrived in pieces. So Govan got some glue and tweezers and set to work. "He was extremely calm and concentrating on the task at hand," recalls friend John Elderfield, chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. "He may be the big-picture person, but he's also able to jump in and do it himself when...
...Sylvester Stallone wearing a Panerai watch at a press conference for his movie Rocky Balboa...
...Lebanon's powerful Shi'ite political party Hizballah, which possesses its own military, is using its influence to press for a new President friendly to its agenda and the interests of its Syrian and Iranian backers. Meanwhile, pro-Western, anti-Syrian politicians threaten to elect a President from their own camp if the opposition rejects a consensus candidate. Hizballah and its allies say they will not recognize an anti-Syrian President and hint they will form a rival government instead...
...church, composed a list at France's behest of potential names from which the rival parliamentary blocs could select a President. The list allegedly includes candidates favored by both factions as well as some independent names. So far no potential consensus candidate has emerged as both camps continue to press for their own choices for the presidency...
...fund" they tucked into the Senate bill to protect marginal farms. And the corresponding House bill includes scads of new money for nutrition, conservation, fruit and vegetable farms, organic certification, and other programs desired by various interest groups. That's why even the National Wildlife Federation sent out a press release Thursday declaring: "Senate Needs to Move Farm Bill Forward...