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...cultural middleman, who had collaborated on the design of the Four Seasons and had also arranged for New York's Museum of Modern Art to buy its first Rothko. So it may have been partly out of gratitude that Rothko agreed to a project that was in every way wrong for him. The Four Seasons was glittering, elegant and worldly. Rothko, then 54, was intense, anguished and obsessed with producing images for an era in which, as he saw it, God was an exhausted convention but the need for transcendence was not. Did he really believe that his pulsing canvases...
...There was a similar procedure for my headscarf and abaya, conservative Islamic women's attire, which I removed in "safer" regions and put on in "dangerous" ones. The black shroud was stifling but necessary camouflage in areas where most women don them and where a second look from the wrong person can still prove deadly...
Americans are always skeptical of politicians, but the financial meltdown has made it clear they no longer believe much of anything Washington's current batch of news-cycle-obsessed, responsibility-dodging wolf criers have to say. After eight years of George W. Bush's supremely confident but frequently wrong statements about everything from WMD to the inherent goodness of Vladimir Putin--and after former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan confessed the irrelevance of truth to his p.r. strategy--his television appearances are now widely ignored, and his approval ratings have touched an all-time low of 23%, according...
Judging from tales about the rise and fall of empires, there is always a point when things are going so well that the emperors doubt that anything could ever go wrong. "THRIFT," warned Nero's adviser Seneca, "comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse." In the Old World, nations grew fat and then lazy, until they collapsed under their own weight. But that was not to be our story. American greatness--the vision of the founders, the courage of the pioneers, the industry of the nation builders--reflected a mighty faith in the power...
...went wrong, however, as senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti continued to pick apart the defense, completing 25 of 35 passes for 320 yards and two touchdowns. On the receiving end of most of those passes was electrifying junior wide receiver Matt Luft. Luft had a spectacular game, catching 10 passes for a total of 148 yards. When asked about how to limit Pizzotti’s and Luft’s production, Tavani joked that he hopes the two “become seriously...