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...temperas are in major American museums, from Manhattan's Met and Modern to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts.* His shows are thronged: 247,800 people went to a month-long Wyeth show in Buffalo last year. Last summer, when President Kennedy picked a painter to be among the first winners of the Medal of Freedom-the U.S.'s highest civilian honor-it was quite inevitable that the choice would be Wyeth. A fortnight ago, President Johnson presented it to him with a citation declaring that "he has in the great humanist tradition illuminated and clarified...
...other corners of Europe, where offal never really disappeared from the menu, eating organs is reaching new heights of popularity. Sales are up in Spain and have increased 15% in France over the past three months. France's National Federation of Offal Merchants is encouraging the trend with an annual, month-long promotion involving well-known chefs and the publication of a book of offal recipes from prestigious restaurants...
...final day of a history-making, 21-month-long presidential campaign turned out to be a bittersweet one for Barack Obama, as he learned that the white grandmother who had helped raise him had died in her sleep, and would not live to see whether her grandson would become the nation's first African-American president. Madelyn Dunham "was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America," Obama told supporters on a rain-sodden field at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. "They aren't seeking the limelight. All they're trying...
...faded here in Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located. Botched administration in counties around the state tethered voters to their precincts, sometimes for hours, and the confusion forced many to cast provisional ballots, which were a source of more bureaucratic and legal bickering. Since then Ohio has enacted a month-long early voting period and Cuyahoga County has completely overhauled its elections system - twice. (See pictures of tough times in Cleveland...
Twenty-five students from the Institute of Politics and representatives from three other student groups visited Roxbury and Dorchester on Saturday to register voters in underrepresented neighborhoods. At their final campaign at Oktoberfest on Sunday, the IOP wrapped up a month-long voter registration drive with the Cambridge Election Committee. The IOP’s last efforts, assisted by the Philips Brooks House Association, the Black Men’s Forum, and Students Taking on Poverty, come before this week’s voter registration deadline in Massachusetts. The students registered hundreds of voters over the weekend...