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...rough and tumble of Alabama politics, the scramble for power is often a blood sport. At the moment, the state's former Democratic governor, Don Siegelman, stands convicted of bribery and conspiracy charges and faces a sentence of up to 30 years in prison. Siegelman has long claimed that his prosecution was driven by politically motivated, Republican-appointed U.S. attorneys...
Serra is still interested first and last in space and form, process and material, the working parameters of abstract art. But he also knows that by operating at this beckoning, intimidating scale, with this rough, forged-in-fire material, he sets loose associations--with the curves of the human body, with mineral formations and architectural space--that carry his work into complicated psychological territory. If he starts with complex solid geometry, he doesn't end there...
...Romney is, in many ways, the anti-McCain. Polished where McCain is rough, smiling where McCain grimaces, very, very tan where as McCain is pale. Romney's successes have come in large part due to a smooth manner and a gentle way with words; McCain has succeeded in politics despite lacking those skills...
France's new President, Nicolas Sarkozy, promised a government embodying his reformist mission, and, so far, he hasn't disappointed. Early Friday, he unveiled a minimalist 15-member cabinet, pared down from predecessor Jacques Chirac's 31. Its mix of ages, races, political backgrounds and rough gender parity is intended to reflect the face of a French society ready for a long-postponed social and economic revitalization...
...whomever has to put it back. There’s whispering and then there’s “just-as-loud-as-talking whispering.” We’re sure the gossip is juicy like whoa, but we don’t care. Times are rough. Sometimes you’ve gotta sleep in Lamont. But, don’t snore. Please...