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...Nazi bosses as they catalogued looted Vermeers and Rembrandts, and shipped them off to the private collections of top Nazis. Choice pieces were earmarked for the grand Führermuseum, which Adolf Hitler planned but never built in Linz, Austria, near his birthplace. At night, Valland would record the details at home in secret diaries, and warn her comrades in the French Resistance so that Allied bombers would spare these treasure-laden trains bound for Germany...
...record show that contemporary art has coercive spectacles of its own. One of them is Cai's Inopportune: Stage One--a car-bombing presented as a Chinese-scroll sequence of tumbling white automobiles, blinking light rods bursting from them like fireworks--suspended down the length of the Guggenheim's vast rotunda. Cai sees it as a "contradictory presentation--very strong physical violence presented in terms of physical beauty." And there's no denying that the piece brings its share of wow factor to the rotunda. But it's also an instance of an artist playing air guitar with history--making...
...have been a home game, but the Crimson was still left with those Tennessee blues. In a pulsating contest, Harvard (4-3) fell to a 5-2 defeat against East Tennessee State (9-3), surrendering its perfect home record in the process. The Buccaneers’ victory extends its winning streak to four games, although the Crimson made them work for it. “It’s a tough one to swallow,” said Harvard head coach Andrew Rueb. “We weren’t as sharp as we needed to be to beat...
...doing that and you are going to compare, you're going to bring up her record now and say... I think it's fair if she thinks that [her record] is one of the reasons that she should be a nominee, then I think it shouldn't have to be [my campaign to bring up the issue]. Hopefully the press will do it's job and say let's take a look. Obama has this one issue related to Tony Rezko which everybody's been focused on, although there have been no allegations of any wrongdoing whatsoever. And this...
...South Carolina, he dismissed the advice of his advisor, former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley, to aggressively attack McCain as a Washington insider with a spotty conservative record, a decision that may have cost Huckabee that primary. When the New York Times reported rumors that McCain had conducted a "romantic" relationship with a lobbyist, Huckabee refused to make an issue of it, despite the obvious opportunity...