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MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR CLUTTER Organizational gurus may reclaim shelf space by getting clients to trash their high school honors or sentimental icons, but aren't their homes losing a bit of personality and history? There's a reason Rachael Ray is gaining on Martha Stewart, Freedman says. People are naturally a little clumsy and messy, and try as we might to cultivate monastery-like sanctuaries, clutter creeps back. Accept that, and you'll stress less...
...certainly seemed that way this week, when the night before our President went before the nation to unveil his new Iraq plan, our second-term mayor, Ray Nagin - a charismatic, often glib leader whom many see as disengaged - unveiled a plan to battle a wave of violence that threatens to spin out of control. Like the reception Bush got, Nagin's move was instantly criticized as too little, too late...
...nature were on my mind during a recent pilgrimage to see a new piece of technology in the Italian Alps town of Viganella, nestled in a valley near the Swiss border. It sounds cozy, but come wintertime, nestled turns nasty, as not a ray of sun touches the town for nearly three months. So Viganella's mayor got the bright idea to install a giant, rotating mirror on a 900-m-high ridge to reflect the sun down on the shaded town's lone piazza...
...consequences of small size. "To those who say she has a right to develop and grow," argues Gunther, "[I say] Ashley has no concept of these things." But he is talking as a scientist; the philosopher uses different tools. Just because autonomy doesn't show up on an X-ray doesn't mean it can't be harmed by a scalpel. And if rights are inalienable, they exist whether the patient is aware of them...
...that Brenda L. Croft retrieved from her late father's shoebox of slides, and Darren Siwes' ghostly self-portrait projected onto a Henson-like night-time landscape, to vacated urban spaces in which we are left to trace subtle signs of life-whether it be in a ray of sunlight retreating from Annie Hogan's Brisbane rental house, or the silvery spray of Scott Redford's Gold Coast urinal. Such images remind us that reality is sometimes best expressed by what is absent or left behind. The exhibition is not called light sensitive for nothing (this also happens...