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...tradition that has continued up to today's Gulf conflicts. In his new capacity, Nash returned to the front just after the battle of Passchendaele, where the long bombardment had left a wilderness of slime and corpses. "The rain drives on, the stinking mud becomes more evilly yellow, the shell holes fill up with green white water ... O it is unspeakable, Godless, hopeless," he wrote, traumatized but still making color notes. His sketches formed the basis of paintings like We Are Making a New World (1918). The sun sends searchlight beams through clouds the color of dried blood, illuminating blasted...
...been so long since we have had an old-fashioned confirmation bloodletting, you could almost forget the foul mood that overtook the U.S. during the fights over Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Washington was so shell-shocked by the Thomas battle that people were intent on turning the next Supreme Court vacancy, in 1994, into a milder affair. And Stephen Breyer's confirmation process proved to be a breeze...
...Infiniti FX35, a cross between a sports car and an SUV. Lipscombe, 36, an attorney in Santa Barbara, Calif., opted for a series of add-ons that have turned the latest Infiniti into a state-of-the-art technological marvel. Hundreds of thousands of other Americans are doing likewise, shelling out for cool gadgets that can help with the drive, entertain backseat passengers and--though there's some disagreement here--make the trip safer. These add-ons are pumping some fuel into the auto industry's depleted tank. New-car sales have sagged in recent months, but many buyers...
...compassionate conservatism. He quickly pushed the No Child Left Behind Act through Congress, but two years later, the states are furious about the law. Their beef? It imposes huge new testing requirements, and yet the President has not appropriated enough money to pay for it. States have to shell out an estimated $35 billion out of their own pockets. The resulting squeeze has forced 20 states to cut k-12 education programs. Schools in 100 districts in six states have gone to four-day weeks, and some districts in Oregon recently ended their school year three weeks early. Democrats should...
...social menu. As a first-year, one is limited to clandestinely gathering in dorm rooms or searching aimlessly for upper-class parties. In the Houses, those students who by some stroke of luck have a (decent-sized) common room, who are 21, and who are willing to shell out the necessary dough can apply to have a party which will end at 1 a.m. sharp. As often as not, something will upset the delicate balance: it will be “too noisy,” or there will be difficulty removing people from the hallways, or hundreds of first...