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...changed the Louvre's official status and gave it some limited autonomy. Loyrette and Selles have taken that opening and gone further, wresting management of the museum's finances and staff from government bureaucrats and, in exchange, signing a deal with the Culture Ministry that commits it to meet certain performance targets. In the past, the Louvre didn't even get the receipts of its ticket sales - instead, the money was put in a pot and divided up among all French museums. "We used to live in an absurd system, a universe that was completely archaic," Selles says...
...that things become less well organized over time. But living things do something distinctly unnatural. They get bigger and better organized. Think about it. The little kids who sat in my rowboat are all big and smart now. It might only be for a short time and in a certain place but all life violates the law that demands "things fall apart." From the algae that organize pond gunk into efficient little green cells, to human beings, striving constantly for that special kind of organization called understanding, living things build up and organize where Nature would tear down and break...
...Similar objections run through the legal filings in both cities. Both St. Paul and Denver have announced plans to restrict marches to certain hours during the middle of the day, before delegates are likely to arrive at the convention halls. "The question is whether we are going to be marching to an empty building," says Bob Hennessey, an attorney at Linquist and Vennum, who is representing the St. Paul coalition...
...their city. The current source of dispute is Obama's purported desire to give a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate, the backdrop for Reagan's 1987 address. Through a spokesman, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she regards the possibility of Obama's speaking there "with a certain bewilderment ... No German politician would come up with the idea to do such a thing at the National Mall...
...York Times broke a story about the famous "Serenity Prayer," part of which is cited above. For decades, it has been routinely attributed to the great Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. He wrote it, according to most accounts, for a sermon he gave in the summer of 1943. So certain is his daughter, Elisabeth Sifton, of its provenance, that she put out a book in 2003 about its connections with her father's views on peace and war. But the Times reports that an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine by a law librarian and quotation expert there will present...