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Vegas is also the perfect place for Hickey, who has taught at the University of Nevada since 1992. It's a freebooting and democratic city where people with funny resumes fit right in. Whatever else he is--lucid hipster, tenured iconoclast and barbarian at the gates of art-world convention--Hickey, 62, is the only American art critic of consequence who used to play guitar for a country-and-western band. He is also proof that MacArthur Foundation "genius grants," like the one he was awarded this year, go to some shaggy characters, the kind who like low-rider cars...
There's no pill to keep you completely safe from the effects of a nuclear attack, but that hasn't stopped a lot of people from behaving as if there were. If the anthrax scares taught us a lot about how to respond to a public health emergency--and how not to--the potential threat of nuclear terrorism could teach us even more...
...Khartoum still needed telling, the fierce American campaign in Afghanistan served up a sobering reminder. The country's previous involvement with bin Laden brought on cruise-missile strikes in 1998, and there's no eagerness to repeat that experience. Six years on the State Department's terrorist list taught Sudan the economic cost of getting cozy with terrorists. The Islamic regime does remain suspect for nurturing extremism. Its diplomats were allegedly involved this year in a plot - dreamed up by an al-Qaeda agent connected to the Cole and East African embassy attacks - to bomb the U.S. embassy in India...
Watching beloved used bookstores like McIntyre & Moore leave the Square taught her the importance of campaigning to make sure longtime establishments remain in the Square, Bankerd says...
...such an unbreakable, determined spirit,” he said. “She taught me so much about my religion...