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A Walk-Through with Ansel Adams
Category: Focus Published: January 2008
This exhibition offers "new insight into one of the few photographers in the history of the medium whose name and images enjoy worldwide recognition."
 
Afghanistan Still Needs Saving Gordon Brown
Category: Worldview Published: January 2008
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom promises that his nation will hold fast in its support of a new Afghanistan. However, beyond Uncle Sam, who is willing to lend the beleaguered British a hand?
 
Chim Is Him: Discovering David Szymin Robert Flynn Johnson
Category: Focus Published: January 2008
"[He] had the intelligence of a chess player; with the air of a math teacher, he applied his profession. . . . Chim picked up his camera the way a doctor takes his stethoscope out of his bag, applying his diagnosis to the condition of the heart."
 
Edward Hopper: Master of Silence
Category: Museums Today Published: January 2008
"He offers a brand of realism not bound by reality. His work appears at once traditional and modern; his women are erotic and puritanical; and the places he depicts are familiar and foreign, comfortable and disquieting."
 
Giving NCLB an A-PLUS Boost Dan Lips
Category: Education Published: January 2008
The Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success Act would promote greater local control in education while maintaining accountability through state-level testing and information reporting to parents to ensure transparency.
 
Goracle Gushings on Faith-Based Science Gerald E. Marsh
Category: National Affairs Published: January 2008
". . . We are about to waste an enormous amount of money and effort on carbon mitigation without lowering CO2 emissions one whit. [Al Gore] and his fellow travelers will carry the day."
 
How Members of Congress Practice Private School Choice Evan Feinberg
Category: Life in America Published: January 2008
". . . If all of the members [of the Senate and House] who exercised school choice for their own children had supported school choice in policy, every major legislative effort in recent years to give parents school choice would have passed."
 
Picture Perfect, Old Chap
Category: The World Yesterday Published: January 2008
"Prints and drawings sought to capture the experience of place or, in turn, to propagate a vision of what such a delightful spot on Earth could look like, with devotion to geographical and even botanical specificity."
 
Relating to Iran . . . And the World Chuck Hagel
Category: American Thought Published: January 2008
"Rather than acting like a nation riddled with the insecurities of a schoolyard bully, we ought to carry ourselves with the confidence that should come from the dignity of our heritage, experience of our history, and strength of our humanity. . . ."
 
What Does the Future Hold for the Bear and the Eagle? Harold E. Rogers Jr.
Category: Worldview Published: January 2008
"For a time after the [Boris] Yeltsin era, Russia appeared to be casting its lot with the West, but recently seems to have changed course, developing another sphere of influence."