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Allen suggested that Harvard participated in a concerted effort to shield itself from financial risk by buying up preferred stock even as it sold common stock at less than market value...
...metal beak of Sroka, 1992, juts at you like the ramming prow of an ancient galley, while the big blade of steel that splits the body of Winged Trunk, 1989, could be read either as a weapon that has given the body its deathblow or as a protective shield. Sometimes the metal fittings read as shells or tusks, sometimes as prostheses and sometimes as primitive tools from a remote past haunted by medieval forest fears. This passive- aggressive imagery is strongly affecting. It also makes you realize how sharply metaphors drawn from the natural world can still affect us. Abakanowicz...
Star Wars -- the antimissile defense scheme, not the movie series -- is finished. The Strategic Defense Initiative that Ronald Reagan proposed in 1983 to establish an outer space-based shield against Soviet nuclear missiles was declared dead by Defensec Secretary Les Aspin. Some $30 billion had been spent on the program...
Action seemed imperative. The Bosnian Serbs had turned down the Vance-Owen peace plan and laid siege to a new brace of Muslim towns. Boris Yeltsin, his referendum victory safe, announced he would no longer shield the Serbs indiscriminately from "the will of the world." Former Secretary of State George Shultz, among others, counseled military force. People compared the Serbian aggression to the Holocaust, thus suggesting that intervention was a moral necessity. Meanwhile, Clinton consulted. Dozens of members of Congress, eyeing polls that said only 30% of the public supported air strikes, rejected the Holocaust comparison...
...hailed as the greatest success yet in the defense of Planet Earth. Many a President and Prime Minister present themselves as the saviors of the ozone layer -- the leaders who rescued the fragile atmospheric shield that protects all living things from the sun's dangerous ultraviolet rays. This airbrushed view of history starts in 1985, when scientists realized that an ozone hole had opened over the South Pole -- the result of an atmospheric assault by man- made chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons, which are commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners. Soon after this disturbing surprise, the diplomats of the world were...