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If Jennifer Thomas was trying to fend off the media glare, flight attendant Anne Marie Smith was getting maximum exposure. She made the cable-network rounds and spent two days at FBI headquarters in Washington. Smith's story has grown increasingly sinister. Her lawyer, Jim Robinson, told Fox News that...
It's the stem cells that are getting most of the moral and ethical debate at the moment. President Bush is considering whether taxpayers' money should be used to fund stem cell research. He is under pressure from both sides. Normally, stem cells for this research come from unneeded frozen...
But for the viewer, the work's craft ancestry promotes a confidence in looking at it. Puryear's shapes come out of several parallel worlds of form, which, when prolonged, actually do meet. One is industrial--but "obsolete" industrial: the vigorous and noble shapes of what are now antique technologies...
The Gary Condit-Chandra Levy case represents a sinister flowering of Meg Greenfield's high school theory.
In that regard, I think Representative Condit's behavior perhaps should not be understood too quickly. On the surface, it looks as if Condit has been guilty of disastrously bad public relations-concealing himself for so long from the press, seeming evasive, looking guilty etc etc. But think, if only...