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...story is sad but not hopeless. The culprit is more a fugitive red paint pigment that faded with exposure to sunlight than neglect by the infamous Harvard Corporation, the owners of the murals. It is a story easily sensationalized, and has readily been made into a pseudo-scandal, a skeleton in the university's closet. "Rothko had a very high, serious sense for the murals, which is partly a basis for problems that occurred later. I don't think that either side, Rothko or Harvard, had a full understanding of what to do with the murals. There was subliminal misunderstanding...
Remember when the U.S. attacked Kosovo, and everybody accused the President of "wagging the dog" - attacking a Central European country to divert public attention away from a sex scandal? Well, it turns out Bubba may have just been trying to get back in the good graces of his wife. At least that's the history of the Balkan conflict according to the First Lady's latest biographer, Gail Sheehy. In her forthcoming book "Hillary's Choice," Sheehy says that at the height of Monicagate, an enraged and humiliated Hillary went eight months without talking to her husband, before calling...
...about supporting the former Texas Senator for the post. McCain clashed with former Navy Secretary John Dalton when Dalton held up for review the promotion of Commander Bob Stumpf, a former leader of the Blue Angels and decorated Gulf War pilot who played a minor role in the Tailhook scandal and whom McCain supported. When Stumpf withdrew his name, McCain called the Secretary at his office and screamed, "You are finished!" McCain and Dalton have barely spoken since. During a closed-door meeting of G.O.P. Senators to discuss the tobacco legislation that he was championing, McCain barked that New Mexico...
...reposition the tabloids as rivals, for both readers and advertisers, of mainstream publications like People (which, like Time, is published by Time Inc.). Casual headline scanners in grocery check-out lines may not have noticed the difference yet, but Pecker claims it exists. "If there's a Hollywood scandal, the investigative portion will be done by the National Enquirer. The impact on celebrities, on their careers, that will be done by the Star...
With management problems ranging from deficits, to unpaid and disgruntled employees, to scandal that impinges on the international relations of two superpowers, Harvard may well decide the time has come to retire its international consulting operation...