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...Democrats know it - this could be the issue, carefully drizzled over the course of months, that could take the wartime sheen off George W. Bush in time for not only this November but maybe even two Novembers from now. For that cause, a parade of shredders, auditors and penniless employees will do nicely - but Republicans will be berating wrongdoers too. And if Lieberman and Levin and tax man Max Baucus follow that trail much farther - to why this happened, and who created the conditions that allowed it to happen - the midterms could be awfully hard on voters' faith in both...
...radiation is not without side effects: it's exhausting and it can make the skin less pliant, rendering breast implants a near impossibility. Sometimes radiation causes the skin to take on a sunburn-like sheen. In rare instances, it can damage the lungs or heart. Physicians hope that carefully restricting radiation to a small area will eliminate many of these problems - including the fear factor...
...highlights Koch could raise from it can be extraordinarily dramatic and resolved. Witness his Music, 1956-57, and what this lovely fugue of pewter-gray and dark would lose if the L-shaped opening in its lower cupboard door were closed. Has any American artist ever painted the sheen of polished mahogany better than Koch? Well, maybe one: John Singleton Copley, whose work, not coincidentally, Koch adored...
...Funny thing happens after New Year's, though. Once that first resolution goes out the window, the sheen of optimism starts to dissipate, and the new year starts to feel a lot like the old one - new number, same world, same problems, same fears. And a hangover to boot. The stock market, anticipatory beast that it is, has already started to put on the brakes; having regained 10,000 (a few times) in the past two weeks, the Dow seems positively allergic to the air at 11,000, and the NASDAQ, despite a 3-day rally to close the week...
...close friends like Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones sense invisible barriers thrown up between themselves and outsiders. "We're still our own best friends," each says...They constitute a four-way plug-in personality, each sparking the circuits in his own way. Paul, outgoing and talkative, spreads a sheen of charm; he is the smoother-over, the explainer, as pleasingly facile at life as he is at composing melodies. George, once the least visible of the group, now focuses his energies on Indian music and philosophy; an occasional contributor to the Beatle songbook, he is the most accomplished instrumentalist...