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...Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2010 gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman, Gavin Newsom and Jerry Brown and, polls suggest, two-thirds of voters. The 1879 state constitution is the third longest in the world, and it has more than 500 amendments. But to gather this convention, Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman has to put an initiative on the 2010 ballot. "It's ironic, right? We need an initiative," he says, "to get rid of the initiative...
...Wunderman had totally convinced me of his plan's merit until he told me the new constitution wasn't really going to get rid of initiatives. "If you tried to eliminate the initiative process, it would be DOA. We suggest you require that initiatives have to identify their funding source." I had never wanted Dick Cheney to take over an organization before...
...they become strangers who speak a different language and live by an alien code. "The grandparent has achieved his American Dream," says Schlesinger, "but at a terrible cost." Exacerbating the alienation is the fact that because the Americanized grandchild is more adept at navigating the new world, says Teri Wunderman, a psychologist who works with Hispanic families in Miami, "there's less the idea that Grandma and Grandpa are these older, wiser people...
...owned-the 3,500 or so objects that were the nucleus of his Museum of Primitive Art, along with his smaller private collection-went to the Metropolitan in his son's memory. To this bequest have been added several very choice groups of objects from other sources: the Wunderman collection of Dogon sculpture, ancient Peruvian ceramics from the Nathan Cummings collection, and a number of pre-Columbian objects from the Alice Bache bequest...
Guggenheim, who has studied the Dogon for over ten years, secured funds from several foundations to finance the mission. The Wunderman Art Foundation agreed to sponsor three Harvard students. whom Guggenheim and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, selected this fall...