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STEALING BEAUTY

Cover Story | Increasingly, art is becoming either so esoteric as to be irrelevant or so commercial as to be reduced to a consumer commodity. But we can recover the foundation for true aesthetics

In this issue: "What is art?," March 20, 2004

Features

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Business Beat

National |  Business

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Education Beat

National |  Education

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Religion

National |  Religion

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Sports

National |  Sports

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Technology

National |  Technology

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Blackmun's legacy

National |  COURTS: The late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun is most closely identified with the sweeping abortion decision Roe vs. Wade. Five years after his death,

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Motivated by money

International |  UPDATE: Chinese-American human-rights heroine gets a prison sentence after her guilty plea in an illegal-export scheme

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On balance, a happy anniversary

International |  IRAQ: A year after the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, citizens agree on new system of government

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'Smart lady ... dumb mistake'

National |  COURTS: Martha Stewart proves once again the coverup is often worse than the crime-but is she any worse than, say, Bill Clinton?

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Side bar

National |  Bernard Ebbers, founder and former CEO of WorldCom, pleaded not guilty on March 3 to charges that he misled investors in the formerly high-flying telecom…

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The political air war

National |  PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: Liberal interest groups are spending tens of millions of dollars to advertise against President Bush, even as they claim they're not…

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Blackmun sidebar

National |  During the Monica Lewinsky scandal, President Clinton struggled with the meaning of the word is. Now it seems a three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit Court of…

Dispatches

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The Buzz

The Buzz

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How the cookie crumbles

The Buzz

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Quick Takes

Quick Takes

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Quotables

Quotables

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Blog Watch

Blog Watch

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Mailbag

Mailbag

Reviews

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Culture Beat

Culture |  Culture

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We owe Haiti

Culture |  If it weren't for an island slave revolt, the United States might have become a French colony

Voices

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A totally alien mindset

Homosexuals and others are demanding approval, not just permission, for their behavior

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After the movie

The Passion, for all its strengths, cannot do evangelical follow-up

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Outside over there

Entering blog time, where the living is energetic but not easy

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