Word: stated
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...current nascent state," declares art historian Paul Tucker, squinting wishfully against the sun. The University of Massachusetts professor is shadowed by an I-beam mass of welded steel that looms 55' tall above a campus soccer field. The construction, a piece by sculptor Mark diSuvero, is entitled "Huru," a word that means both hello and good-bye in an aboriginal Australian language. Appropriately situated to greet incomers from University Drive, "Huru" was the first piece of artwork in Arts on the Point, the public sculpture park at UMass Boston and a gargantuan contemporary art project that arguably borders a renaissance...
...crane. The vandalism's $8000 setback is just the tip of the contention iceberg. Tucker has received hate mail, plus a threat from a woman who says she will throw herself in front of the bulldozer if the university continues with construction. At the request of residents and State Representative Martin Walsh (D-Dorchester), the dramatic smashing extended the project's moratorium, which had begun two months before the incident...
Kerry also expressed concern at the state of foreign affairs...
...always possible, of course, that even if Gore wins the recount, Florida election officials (such as Secretary of State Katherine Harris) could refuse to certify his victory. And that would mean another court proceeding in which Gore would be forced to get an injunction ordering the certification to take place...
...agreement between Gore and then Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin obliged Russia to stop shipping conventional weapons to Iran, in order to exempt Moscow from automatic U.S. sanctions against those who sell arms to countries on the State Department's list of states sponsoring terrorism. Despite the undertaking, Russia continued to fulfill orders for fighter aircraft, armored vehicles and submarines, but it has withdrawn from the Gore-Chernomyrdin agreement to take advantage of a $5 billion Iranian order for helicopters, surface-to-air missiles and new tanks and jets...