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Now the reviews of the exhibit are in, and although most critics defend the museum's right to exhibit what it wants, few defend the art : "Appallingly witless and stupid" (Hilton Kramer, the New York Observer ). Terry Teachout calls it "strictly adolescent stuff" that reveals that "British artists ...
The NYT lead reports that on Sunday, the night before his second attempt to win confirmation as PM from the Russian parliament, Chernomyrdin used his TV address to defend and further explain the economic platform he rolled out last week: printing billions of rubles now to pay for years of soldiers', civil servants' and defense workers' back wages and pensions and to save banks, and cutting the profits tax by 50 percent and then in just a few months, strictly controlling the currency, collecting taxes and cutting government spending.
The U.S. hopes the program will help these Bosnians defend themselves against Serbs, so U.S. soldiers can go home.
Funding for legal services goes to defend needy clients in domestic violence cases, custody cases and other such matters, according to LSC.
Defend labor rights in all markets--prohibit the ancient abuses renewed in the "dark Satanic mills."