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...groundwork for those achievements is recorded in Poussin's drawings. Though only a fraction of these works survives, Poussin the draftsman rewards all the attention you can give him. This is so despite the fact that he never seems to have done a highly finished demonstration drawing, a show of virtuosity for others, such as was common among other 17th century artists. All his drawings were for his own use, memory aids or steps toward a finished composition, and they don't bother with seducing the eye. They are pragmatic expressions of the desire to understand a pose...
...presidential aspirants Jack Kemp, then 38 and a two-term Congressman, and Joseph Biden, at 31, the Senate's youngest member. As for perennial presidential almost-aspirant William Bradley, who in '74 was 30 years old and still a Knick, we wrote that he "was laying the groundwork for a possible congressional bid in his New Jersey district with public speaking between games and in the off-season." If public speaking was his strategy, it's remarkable that Bradley had any political career...
...Former Insiders: The resumes of James Baker and Dick Cheney can't be beat. Only Alexander has worked as hard as Cheney laying the groundwork for 1996. But the former Defense Secretary is the very definition of dull, and as one big-state G.O.P. chairman says, "We saw with Bush that you need as much spark as heft if you hope to win." Cheney makes Baker look charismatic, and this ex-everything is a world-class fund raiser. Both Cheney and Baker will share a slogan -- "Bring Back the Grownups" -- but since their best credentials are outside the realm...
...have been Clinton's buttering-up of China, the big engine fueling the Asian economic explosion and arguably APEC's most important partner. The Chinese are "going to be like Japan, but outstrip our Japanese problem by an order of magnitude," Ratan says. The APEC summit, he adds, lays groundwork for serious negotiations with China on what it really wants: entry into the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) sooner than 2020. Not discussed: China's human rights record, which Clinton separated from renewal of China's Most Favored Nation status earlier this year.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...Israel. When Arafat was later asked whether he backed peace or the extremists of Hamas, he duly said, "My choice is the peace, the peace of the brave." Clinton also asked Mubarak about the best approaches to use with Assad, and Mubarak later phoned Damascus to lay the groundwork for Clinton's arrival. "It's not just intelligence Mubarak provides," said a U.S. official. "It's insight...