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American Thought |
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March 2009 |
| "America is a country loaded with romantics, and, so, despite having our hearts broken and our waists expanded by failed food affairs, we wander through the wasteland seaking our true soul mate." |
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Asian Art |
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March 2009 |
| "On occasion, threads of gold or silver are spun through the fabric, resulting in a unique brilliance especially appropriate to the 'Burning Sun,' and the shimmering snowscapes of the final 'Symphony of Light' winter panels of Kubota's landscape kimonos. |
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Focus |
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March 2009 |
| "The exhibition explores how studio spaces reflect--or, in some cases, belie--the personalities and aesthetic sensibilities of the individuals who inhabit them." |
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Museums Today |
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March 2009 |
| The exhibition offers a breathtaking survey of the 17th-century Dutch cityscape, from wide-angle panoramas of the urban skyline w/ its fortifications, windmills, & church steeples, to renderings of daily life along the canals, city streets & town squares. |
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National Affairs |
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March 2009 |
| "Minimizing the disruption to the national economy may warrant a significant role for conventional fuels during the limited period that new energy sources are being developed and the means for their distribution put in place." |
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Life in America |
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March 2009 |
| "Today's kids have it rough and, as parents, we not only have to endure our children's suffering but, for some of us, it is forcing us to relive our own." |
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The World Yesterday |
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March 2009 |
| The United Kingdom's former Prime Minister "was the most consistent, outspoken, determined, and reliable friend to [Pres. Ronald] Reagan and the U.S. in the final climactic struggle with totalitarian communism." |
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Economics |
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March 2009 |
| "Although the cyclical nature of history holds forth the promise that politics will manage to regain control of the economy, these hard decades of rogue economics once again will be the high price that we pay for our conquests." |
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The World Today |
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March 2009 |
| "Purchasing the whole crop of an entire country, at whatever price, would take it away from the traffickers without cutting more than half the economy out of Afghanistan." |
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Education |
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March 2009 |
| If government would "pledge its support to abstinence programs instead of free-condoms-for-students initiatives, the teen pregnancy rate might have a chance to take a real plunge." |
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Ecology |
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March 2009 |
| "A unique vision of splendor is seen as never before through the eyes of intrepid artist-explorers in 'Catesby, Audubon, and the Discovery of a New World: Prints of the Flora and Fauna of America." |
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Musuems Today |
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March 2009 |
| "Rembrandt's posthumous fame as the greatest artist of the Dutch golden age has left Jan Lievens in his shadow, described as a follower or student, even though Lievens began his career some years before his compatriot. . . . |
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Worldview |
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March 2009 |
| "The U.S. tends to be critical of Russia and attempts to define its political practices as nondemocratic. Yet, America itself has been struggling for many years concerning the full meaning of democracy." |
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Foreign Affairs |
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March 2009 |
| "[There is] an issue that does not get much attention, but which, in many respects, is [quite] troubling and affects American interests in ways that could have a profound impact well into the future. This is what our friends in Europe call 'norming.' " |
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Business & Finance |
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March 2009 |
| "An asset bubble is like a Ponzi scheme. Homeowners purchased or borrowed against their homes with the expectation that a future group of buyers would pay increasingly rising prices." |
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