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Images: (Vermeer) via artemis.austincollege.edu;(monitor) reviewdesk.com; (Jesus Alou) baseball-almanac.com; (pancake) orugallu.net;
October 8, 2007
Intruders Damage a Monet in Paris Museum
By JAMES KANTER
October 8, 2007
PARIS, Oct. 7 — Intruders broke into the Orsay Museum early Sunday and damaged a work by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, the latest in a series of acts of vandalism and thefts at cultural sites in France.
Christine Albanel, the minister […]
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I saw this AP photo this morning.
The movement and emotion reminded me
of a famous French painting by Eugene Delacroix.
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Cleveland Indians’ Casey Blake, left, Paul Byrd, center, and Victor Martinez rush toward Travis Hafner after Hafner’s 11th-inning single drove in the winning run for a 2-1 win over the New York Yankees in Game […]
This makes those $1000 toilet seats look like a steal.
Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers (Update3)
By Tony Capaccio
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to an Army base in […]
Bikers back Spindle
2,000 hit streets hoping to keep famed car stack standing
July 28, 2007
BY DAVE NEWBART AND NORMAN PARISH Staff Reporters/
Chanting “Save the Spindle,” about 2,000 bicyclists took to the streets Friday night to protest the proposed replacement of a Berwyn art piece — made famous in a “Wayne’s World” movie — with a Walgreens.
The […]
David Broder’s Post column illuminiates the issue with a Caravaggio clarity.
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Images: (Painting) Ecce Homo by Caravaggio via castelmeteo.it; (Fitzgerald) Getty Images via cache.boston.com; (Rover) via axisoflogic.com; (Scooter) AP/ Wide World Photos via motherjones.com;
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Please find the column here.
Agence France Presses
Mon Feb 5, 10:50 AM ET
A French-led marine expedition has discovered thousands of new species of crustaceans and mollusks in waters around the central Philippines.
The discovery was made by the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project, which has been conducting “an intensive inventory” of the complex coastal ecosystem off Panglao island for the past two […]
The Steuben Glass gallery on 5th Avenue has always been one of my favored destinations, but one of their online ads this morning rattled me. I don’t like mice because they remind me of rats. The only mouse for whom I had a grudging respect was MIGHTY and even then–his priggishness was often too annoying […]
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft, left, talks with artist John Howard Sanden, right, after the unveiling ceremony of Ashcroft’s official portrait at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. Ashcroft, a former governor of Missouri and a U.S. senator, served as President George W. Bush’s attorney general from February 2001 to February 2005. […]
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‘Air America on Ad Blacklist?
ABC document: Sponsors shun liberal network
10/31/06
An internal memo from ABC Radio Networks to its affiliates reveals scores of powerful sponsors have a standing order that their commercials never be placed on syndicated Air America programming that airs on ABC affiliates.
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The list, totaling 90 advertisers, includes some of largest and most well-known […]