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...become the White House Svengali: a top West Wing aide says he's now the non-Hillary person the President listens to most. It was Gergen who pushed Clinton to have dinner with Bob Dole last week, who helped dispose of the travel-office scandal and the owls-vs.-timber brouhaha. "We're taking out the trash," says a Clinton aide in the White House. "When we come back in July and go into conference on the budget, we cannot have this stuff lying around...
...consistent Clinton theme. He dropped the gays like a flaming potato, suggesting they might serve in special lavender units; he abandoned the Haitians on their leaky rafts; he snubbed the unions by sticking to NAFTA and forgetting to raise the minimum wage; he cowered before the mining and timber interests. He felt for the underdog, as he never tired of telling us, but whenever the overdogs began to howl, he obediently rushed back toward the right...
...works these trunks to a degree -- stripping the bark, smoothing out some excrescences with chain saw and hatchet and applying some surface treatment -- but she does not carve them beyond that. Each wrinkled bole with its splayed limbs and fissures keeps its tree-ness and does not become mere timber, raw material. Abakanowicz preserves the body of the tree, and then she fits this body with metal shells, prongs and armatures, sometimes binding it as well with strips of burlap like mournful bandages. Thus you find yourself looking at something large, somber, mutilated and of irresistible physical power. Brenson points...
...Mexico; and sardines and anchovies in the Pacific. The United Nations and World Bank sponsored the Tropical Forestry Action Plan to sustain forests, but instead the plan spurred further deforestation. When asked by an environmentalist what he meant by sustainable, a World Bank agronomist replied, "Fifty years of timber production." Even the rubber tappers of Brazil's Amazon rain forest, who along with their martyred leader, Chico Mendes, became symbols of the sustainable use of tropical forests, overexploit their ecosystem. Writing in the journal BioScience, John Browder notes that in search of food and sources of cash, these seringueiros...
...King. A former TV reporter and camera operator in Alexandria, Minnesota, admitted to furnishing alcohol to a minor to illustrate a story on teen drinking. NBC itself went back on air with another admission of error, this time for using footage of fish supposedly killed during clear-cutting of timber on government land. In reality, one shot depicted a different forest while another showed fish that were not dead, only stunned by researchers for testing. In the most dramatic act of contrition, NBC News president Michael Gartner acknowledged that the GM controversy would not die and abruptly resigned last week...