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...live to meet Diane Arbus, but if he had seen her photographs he would have understood her right away. Those portraits of sideshow performers and weeping children, her matter-of-fact nudists and naked transvestites, her pictures of "them," her pictures of "us"--something of consequence is at stake here, and it's not just art. Arbus worked at the point where the voyeuristic and the sacramental converge. She lies in wait for your first misstep in her direction. Then she dares you to stare at something--a little boy with a toy hand grenade, a dominatrix embracing her client...
Throughout religious history, getting spoken to by God has not been a sign of fun times ahead. Abraham had to agree to kill his son. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. On CBS's Joan of Arcadia (Fridays, 8 p.m. E.T.), God appears to a teenage girl and commands her ... to take AP chemistry...
...would stake my reputation on employment growth happening before Christmas." JOHN SNOW, Treasury Secretary, predicting that 2 million jobs will be added to the U.S. economy in the next year...
...Supreme Court since it differs little from a Nebraska law struck down by the high court by a 5-to-4 vote in 2000. The court ruled that because the Nebraska law did not contain an exception for cases in which the mother's health is at stake, it was unconstitutional. The new measure also has no health exception, though lawmakers have included "findings" declaring that the procedure is never medically necessary--findings most legal experts say will carry little weight with the high court...
...last time the two teams faced each other, the Engineers won on a penalty shot in triple overtime. This time, there was much more at stake...