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None of this is new; recent history is rife with bloody battles waged over governmental standard-setting in the realm of publicly funded art. Staid Cincinnati erupted over Robert Mapplethorpe?s photographs of nude men and children. Then there was Andres Serrano (a graduate, incidentally, of the Brooklyn Museum art school) and his "Piss Christ." And who could forget the chocolate-smeared Karen Finley? The terms of the debate are familiar: Does government funding place ultimate discretionary power in the hands of public officials, or does the First Amendment guarantee freedom of expression for all artists, in all venues? Proponents...
...though Hoxby's conclusions depend on data 17 years old, today's college graduates say that, everywhere from a recruiter's callings to the staid halls of academia, dropping a high-prestige name has never been more important...
Just whom can you trust in Moscow these days? That's the challenge facing U.S. officials probing an alleged money-laundering scandal in which $15 billion is said to have been funneled out of Russia through the staid Bank of New York. Members of the investigating task force were reported Wednesday to be reluctant to share information with their Russian colleagues, for fear that such information would find its way quickly into the hands of the targets of the probe. "The concern here is not that individual criminals have bought off individual law enforcement officials, but rather that the police...
...parking lot of a usually staid Portuguese meeting hall in San Diego, Calif., the Violent Femmes blare from a corner amp as the putt-putting of engines competes with the squealing of high-pitched horns. Many dozens of motor scooters in burgundies, grays and greens line the parking lot, displaying favored ornaments--a Tinky Winky doll hanging from one, a picture of Rocky and Bullwinkle's Natasha from another. Ahhh, the smell of exhaust fumes from tiny tailpipes. Welcome to the Vespa Club of America's annual rally, which recently drew nearly 300 motor scooterists from all over...
Though George built a circulation (lately around 400,000) much larger than that of more staid political journals, the magazine was losing money, and Kennedy had been negotiating George's fate with Hachette. Just last week an industry newsletter reported that the magazine's owners were ready to shut it down. Kennedy told staff last week that he was negotiating with other potential publishers. But if George's future looks doubtful without Kennedy, it will at least be an important artifact for having bridged the worlds of politics and celebrity--worlds that John F. Kennedy Jr. knew from both sides...