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...Roger Buergel announced that Adrià would be part of this summer's show, which opened on June 16 and runs through Sept. 23. Skeptics complained that embracing a cook signaled the banalization of Documenta. "Both Adrià's participation and contribution seem ridiculous to me," sniffed art critic Robert Hughes, adding that "food is food." Adrià counters that his critics don't understand what he does or his role in the art show. "My work is my menu," he explains. "And my menu is part of a whole, living experience. It wouldn't be respectful...
Despite the considerable partisanship that existed at the time, equally as bad as today's, Kennedy reached across party lines and appointed Republicans C. Douglas Dillon as Secretary of the Treasury and Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense. If the Democrats capture the presidency in 2008, they must reject the current Administration's extreme partisanship and adopt J.F.K.'s bipartisan approach...
...Robert Bourque, LOS ALAMOS...
...former chief of staff, should be spared, according to recent polls, while around 70% thought he should not. For this unpopular President to show mercy to the convicted staffer of his even more unpopular Vice President would seem the Democrats' ideal end for the affair that began when columnist Robert Novak first wrote that Administration officials had outed Plame to him in interviews. (See TIME's George W. Bush covers...
...also revealed the manpower limitations of the country's electronic surveillance system. David Capitanbchik, a terrorism expert at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, also suggests the attack in Glasgow may be in response to last week's elevation to the post of Prime Minister of Gordon Brown, who is a Scot and from Glasgow, and is a wake-up call to Scotland which has traditionally seen itself as immune to terrorism, a view based in part on strong historical ties with Northern Ireland during the height of Britain's conflict with the IRA. Saturday's attack, on the first...