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...continues a French fascination with Australia's indigenous culture that began when Napoleon sent scientific voyages to the South Pacific. Napoleon's artists were the first to document Tasmania's Aborigines as individuals rather than types, even recording their songs and dance. "It's a tradition that's been rich and sustained over a long period of time," says Susan Hunt, curator of the 1999 show "Terre Napol?on: Australia Through French Eyes." "So this hasn't just come from nowhere." Indeed, during the 1950s, Paris-based artist Karel Kupka was the first to collect Arnhem Land barks as pieces...
Since he took power in 1979, the Ayatullah has threatened to spread his uncompromising brand of Islamic fundamentalism across the fragile, oil-rich states that line the Persian Gulf and to upset the global balance of power. He has sought his goals openly in Iran's seven-year war with Iraq, and he has promoted them stealthily through terrorist bombings and kidnapings abroad. Now Khomeini's brooding presence loomed larger than ever as he seemed ready, even eager, to take on a host of nations ... The greatest threat to Khomeini's Iran may finally come not from the battlefield...
...plan and how much Congressman Ney wanted to help to restore the Tribe's ability to conduct gaming on their reservation." Brian Walsh, a spokesman for Ney says the Congressman never brought the Tigua matter up in committee, and says, "The [Volz] plea, as it relates to Ney is rich with inaccuracies and flat-out falsehoods...
Upper middle class voters get screwed twice. They lose money when Bush sells them out to pay for tax cuts for the uber-rich. Then they lose dignity when they find themselves with a government that hates their values and holds all the prejudices they learned to give up while in college. The upper middle class is far more likely than the poor to hold progressive beliefs on things like abortion and gay rights. When they vote for Republicans, they are voting against both their economic interests and their social beliefs. So next time you’re wondering...
...hype about moral values conservatives, George W. Bush got most of his votes from the upper income brackets. Since the exceptionally rich, by definition, make up a small portion of the population, Bush relied on the upper-middle class for the bulk of his votes. Nobody wrote a book about it, because everybody expected it. After the Bush tax cut, commentators agreed, the country club set would be nuts to vote for anybody else. There’s just one problem: Bush didn’t do what everybody thought...