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Another major benefactor, Adolphus Busch of beer and Clydesdale fame, was more interested in his own cultural roots, so he founded the Germanic Museum in 1903 and turned over a large gift of statues, sculptures and plaster-cast architecture samples to the Museums. Now the Center for European Studies, Busch...
But with the spending bills heading for Clinton's desk, the quiet is ending. After months of searching for issues that will cut their way, battered Democrats have awakened to the political advantage of forming a Praetorian Guard around Mother Earth. Though Clinton has been accused of being just pale...
The Endangered Species Act is only part of it. The Wild Westerners have set their sights on the clean air and water laws, wetlands protection and the further acquisition of federal lands. They want to increase logging in parts of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the nation's largest temperate...
Why the change? Democrats are looking at opinion polls that consistently show bipartisan majorities in favor of strong protections for the environment. In a recent TIME/CNN poll, 63% of those questioned opposed any reduction in protection for endangered species. Fifty-nine percent opposed the expansion of logging, mining or ranching...
By then Mondrian's presence was a talisman to the small New York avant-garde. It was the gift of Hitler. Like many of the Surrealists--whose work he cordially detested--Mondrian had fled to refuge in New York in 1940 as the Nazi threat to "degenerate artists" such as...