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...much for that Governor's Mansion in the Window? Got a couple extra million dollars hanging around that you just don't know what to do with? Try running for governor - these days, it's one of the fastest and most efficient money-burning activity on earth. This year, candidates across the country are spending record amounts of cash (sometimes double or triple what's been seen before) on extremely tight races. Wealthy donors are giving them a helping hand, much to the chagrin of voters, who are now stuck watching endless campaign commercials and praying for November...
...separate vehicle. Karzai was on his way out of the compound of Gul Agha Sherzai, Kandahar's provincial governor, who sat beside him in the car, when he was approached by an Afghan youth hoping to meet the President. A leader known for his affability, Karzai lowered the window to shake the young man's hand...
VOLCANOES OF ANOTHER COLOR My first glimpse of Keli Mutu was out the plane window. The pilot banked and circled so we could get a bird's-eye view of the strangest and most famous volcano on Flores. It squatted above the surrounding hills like some amorphous ogre, pregnant with menace, glaring up with three vast, unblinking eyes. The colors looked so unnatural that at first I thought I was peering into tailing ponds filled with toxic sludge from a large mining operation. Then the pilot informed us we were looking at the crater lakes of Keli Mutu, or "burning...
...show reunites the long-separated panels for the first time, to tantalize us with apparent riddles about the ménage à trois in which Ernst and Eluard were engaged with Eluard's beautiful wife Gala. One panel depicts a hand clutching a ball and extending through a window, its fingers twisted into what could be a woman's - Gala's? - torso. The other depicts a row of almost military-looking plants that might represent Ernst and Eluard. "Surrealism never gives you the answer," observes Spies, a former director of the Pompidou Centre in Paris. "The great Surrealist paintings...
...Feinberg's actuarial tables show that a 30-year-old decedent with a wife, a child and a stockbroker's $80,000 annual salary will suffer $2,521,248 in economic losses. But life isn't a statistical table. The stockbroker's death meant more lost income than a window washer's, but what if the window washer cared for a mentally retarded child? How much should his family be compensated for lost services...