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...fact that Mapplethorpe is now in the midst of a debilitating struggle with AIDS; that the show contains so much work produced in the past year is a tribute to his powers. But boundless drive has always been at the root of his work. His imagery bears the stamp of passion, an aesthete's passion, even in a century in which beauty has an uncertain status as a basis for art. Mapplethorpe does not care; he is a true believer. The poet Czeslaw Milosz, musing on the visible world, once wrote, "Out of reluctant matter/ What can be gathered? Nothing...
...about what happened and why. Many believe that Manigat, eager to assert his own authority over the army, simply moved too fast in his attempt to shake up the military's high command. Others assert that the initiative came from army commanders made uneasy by Manigat's campaign to stamp out corruption and contraband, a major source of income for many military men. According to this theory, Namphy was merely a pawn, forced into action by his own men. Others point to a Machiavellian third possibility: that the coup was a brilliantly executed scheme in which the military feigned...
Already steamed up over sex, the Episcopal Church faces a bishop' s broadside. -- The Pope puts his stamp on the College of Cardinals...
This question about the propriety of an independent Overseers vote on divestment is but the latest phase of a continuing discussion about how Harvard is governed. (Technically, every action of the Corporation must be approved by the Overseers, although in recent memory the Board has acted as a rubber-stamp body...
...officials (though not including himself) to ten years and institute secret ballots for legislative and party posts. His tentative steps in favor of private enterprise even provoked the Soviet Union's first tax revolt, when its national parliament showed for once that it could be more than a rubber stamp. That could make perestroika all the more endearing to Americans, who have a special affinity for revolutions that involve tax revolts. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll, 65% of Americans said they thought superpower relations were "entering a new era." On American television the dour babushka...