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...many years after his Kennedy apprenticeship, "has ruined every single thing it has touched." There was some puckishness to this-he was talking about professional basketball, if I remember correctly-but Walinsky is a serious man and he wasn't really joking. Yes, television has been a wondrous thing. Vast numbers of people now watch presidential debates, State of the Union messages, prime-time press conferences, not to mention terrorist attacks, hurricanes and wars in real time. But television also set off a chain reaction that transformed the very nature of politics. "This is the beginning of a whole...
...followed the money, oscillating between patrons (the Medici family, Popes) in Florence and Rome. It's the first time the drawings have been seen together since the breakup of Michelangelo's studio in 1564, the year of his death at 88. Perhaps his most famous work, the vast Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco commissioned by Pope Julius II, was painted between 1508 and 1512. The preliminary sketches reveal Michelangelo's systematic methods. A composition of schematic figures was worked out, then in the studio his models assumed the dramatic attitudes required-poses that must have been hard to sustain...
...toasters, $51 million worth of auto parts, everything from the little plastic knob on the air conditioner to your cell-phone charger. It all comes in trucks and boxcars and little panel vans, and that's just the stuff that Customs can keep track of. There is also the vast shadow market--not just the cocaine and heroin and freshly laundered money but also cut-price Claritin and steroids and banned bug killers and boots made from the flippers of endangered sea turtles...
...there is a vast difference between the lame NSA thriller and the religion-questioning smash...
...International Monetary Fund and the World Bank back the creation of an “international facility” to invest those assets.“It is an irony of our times that the majority of the world’s poorest people now live in countries with vast international financial reserves...it seems appropriate that some part of the focus of the international financial architecture move towards the challenge of deploying their large reserves as effectively as possible,” Summers said.The international fund investing developing nations’ capital reserves could charge a management fee, which...