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Buckham shared not only DeLay's religious faith but also his audacious vision for harnessing the financial and political clout of business and conservative interests to carry out the G.O.P. agenda and increase its majority in Congress. DeLay offered lobbyists the best seats they had ever had at the table, a say in legislative and political strategy, on the understanding that they in return would pour millions into DeLay's favored causes and candidates. In addition, he threatened to shut out lobbying shops that employed Democrats. In Washington that seamless coordination between his office and the lobbying corridor...
Scientists used to believe that the human brain recognized faces as a whole. But a new study published last week in the Journal of Vision reports that our visual system seems to parse faces as it does words: by their component parts--eyes, nose, lips. The beauty of the brain is that it can assemble those parts into a familiar face in the blink of an eye. --By David Bjerklie
...digitized photograph of the original mural from the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna is the source of the Busch-Reisinger’s photo mural. The reproduction, about the same size as Klimt’s original, is a unique approximation of Klimt’s vision of grandeur...
...concerning the recutting and recombination of films in “director’s cuts” and “special editions.” Is there anything sacred about the filmic art form? Can we draw a line between sacrificing the artist’s vision and reimagining a work...
...raised profound questions about their party's direction. Worried that the Democrats are losing ground by appearing to simply say "no, no, no" to President Bush's agenda rather than offering their own, Democratic strategists James Carville and Stan Greenberg are suggesting that the party should offer an alternative vision on Social Security to Bush's private accounts. Republicans were thrilled with the Greenberg-Carville memo, which they think perfectly illustrated their critique of the Democrats: "Even their own trusted consultants Greenberg and Carville are saying you're not going to anywhere by just saying no," said House Republican Conference...