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...fantastic "message discipline"--Washington argot for the ability to develop a party line ("We're not cutting Medicare, we're saving Medicare") and stick to it. Republicans are skilled at dressing plutocratic policies (such as a capital-gains-tax cut) in populist clothing. Above all, Republicans refuse to let mere principle get in the way of political victory. I'm not talking about universal principles such as truth and intellectual integrity. Both parties are adept at abandoning these trifles. But the Republicans have a special gift for putting aside their own particular political principles, if necessary, in order...
Late 18th century Boston and Philadelphia had a stronger material culture than any other cities in America, but the old Puritan and Quaker distrust of the graven image and preference for the Word had delayed their appreciation of painting (as distinct from furniture or silverware)...Art was mere "limning" and, as Copley complained to West in London, people "regard it as no more than any other useful trade...like that of a Carpenter, tailor or shoe maker, not as one of the most Noble arts in the world. Which is more than a little Mortifying...
...West Bank of fruits and vegetables, the Strip's only exports, have been curtailed. Investment, aside from a boomlet in construction, is minimal. Shawa says Gaza needs an immediate infusion of $400 million for development, but only $120 million has been pledged by international donors, and a mere $12 million has been delivered. "People's souls are dying slowly," says Asia Abdul-Hadi, a Gaza journalist. "That's worse than being shot...
When the Harvard "Student" Telephone Office is not open, a recorded message tells callers that "officers of the University" may leave messages regarding "requests that require attention before the next business day." Mere students, however, are not allowed such a privilege. Why the double standard? As paying customers of HSTO, we have legitimate expectations regarding the service to which we're entitled. We deserve to have those expectations...
...could locate, advising them or their relatives of the impending sale. A handful were furious at the low prices attached to family heirlooms. Denver art historian Ursula Works discovered that a sculpture by her father, donated in 1929, was being sold. Aghast that it was valued at a mere $300 to $500, she and her husband went to the auction and bought it back--not before fighting off others to the tune of $1,400. "We didn't want to see it used as a doorstop or sold as scrap," she said...