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Winslow Homer was, along with Thomas Eakins, the greatest American painter of the late 19th century. Vermeer of Delft was the greatest Dutch one of the late 17th century. Both are the subjects of extraordinary retrospective shows at the National Gallery in Washington. But because the Republicans' zeal to pressure Bill Clinton into signing their balanced-budget bill has closed the National Gallery (along with the whole Smithsonian complex, and much else), nobody can see Homer in Washington, though the show will travel to Boston in February and New York City in June...
...Leary's delegations billed for trips to India and South Africa have no receipts or records to justify how the money was spent. Energy officials are searching for the records and tightening up accounting procedures. Critics inside the department point to other expenditures that stem from O'Leary's zeal for burnishing the agency's image. Last year, Energy Department officials told TIME, the agency spent $10,182 drawing up trendier designs for its logo. O'Leary abandoned the idea after aides learned that it would cost $1.7 million for new logos on all the flags, seals and stationery...
Like all ideals, Postman's suggestions will be difficult to implement Yet his sincere conviction in the potential for change is both infections and inspiring. The End of Education deserves to be read by students as well as educators Swept up in a wave of pre-professional zeal we quickly forget that education can have a purpose in itself. This book provides hope that schooling can be, as he says not about how to make a living, but how to make...
...greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." --Louis D. Brandeis...
...handful of bigots to know these facts may be asking too a blatant and ignorant zeal, they have condemned a is at the forefront of our common fight against AIDS. If factors in this struggle, it is they...