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While serving as Jimmy Carter's special Middle East ambassador in 1979-80, Sol Linowitz spent countless hours trying to fathom the complex personality of Menachem Begin. As President Reagan prepared to confront Begin on the invasion of Lebanon, TIME asked Linowitz for his views on dealing with the Israeli Prime Minister...
...parallel to Nature's sailing." To spend time along the wall in the Philadelphia Museum where Eakins' major paintings and drawings of rowers and shells are hung is, eventually, to see what he meant. The perspective setups have the gratuitous complexity of Uccello and the modernity of Sol LeWitt; their geometrical, measured web of lines turns, slowly and inevitably, into the observed structure of water surfaces, the arrowing interpenetrations of ripples, the striations, and the delicate punctuation of water droplets in light. "There is so much beauty in reflections," Eakins wrote, "that it is generally well worth while...
...favorites that did not fall out before last Saturday's Kentucky Derby fell back during it. Gato del Sol, a 21-1 shot, went into the first turn last and passed 18 horses to win the Derby. It was hardly a classic one: the "greatest two minutes in sport" ran over this year by more than a couple of seconds. Yet Kentuckians were moved all the same, some to tears...
...liked to pick at country music and even cut an album in Nashville. Still, Arthur was bred to be a horseman, and he started his own smaller enterprise-away from Claiborne-Stone Farm. In partnership with Leone J. Peters, he is the owner of Gato del Sol. The Hancocks finally have a Derby winner. "I want to dedicate it to my dad," said Arthur Hancock. "He taught me all I know...
Eddie Gregson, a former movie actor who trains for the former country singer, said immediately that Gato del Sol would not even go to the Preakness, the second Triple Crown jewel in two weeks, but the tugging of tradition will be strong. "He's had a hard campaign," Gregson said of the handsome gray colt. "I had planned all along for just the Derby and the Belmont Stakes [the third jewel in five weeks]. I don't want to ruin my horse." He had an undeniable point...