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Dole has declined to step down from the majority leader's post, which carries stature and affords him free television exposure as President Clinton's foil on Capitol Hill, and he refuses to delegate more authority to his top deputy, majority whip Trent Lott. Now, though, the pressure on Dole is rising. Having lost the balanced-budget battle and becoming desperate to show voters what they stand for, Republican lawmakers return to Washington this week, after a three-week break, to find a Senate schedule devoid of anything except votes on funding the District of Columbia and the Whitewater investigation...
...think that you've never seen a Winslow Homer painting, you're probably wrong. Homer's paintings have graced the covers of many editions of Mark Twain and Louisa May Alcott novels, and almost every anthology of American literature. Or you might have seen his "Snap the Whip" in the commemorative stamp series of famous American artists. In fact, Homer is probably the most widely kown American painter, exploring American life and culture over his long career, which began after the Civil War and continued until his death...
...Museum of Fine Arts is presenting "Winslow Homer," the largest ever travelling exhibit of Homer's art. The show includes 178 works in various media, including watercolors, oils, and engraving--there are even two versions of "Snap the Whip...
Most of Homer's paintings are very bright; works like "Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts," "Snap the Whip," "Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)," and "Boys in the Pasture" show Homer's dexterity in using color to capture the mood of the scene. In "Boys in the Pasture," Homer's scene of children at play expresses a hope for the future, while also stirring feelings of nostalgia for the happy and innocent time before...
...next five months, Kennedy and Kassebaum tracked down a number of conservative suspects, among them Oklahoma's Don Nickles, Arizona's John Kyl, North Carolina's Jesse Helms and Lauch Faircloth, and majority whip Trent Lott. But each potential culprit denied he was the one standing in the way of the bill--at that moment, at least. The hold, it seems, was rolling from requester to anonymous requester. Behind it all, Kennedy and Kassebaum believed, was the Health Insurance Association of America, which has argued that the bill will be far more expensive than advertised. The association also fears that...