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White House Surprised That Republicans Were Surprised By Fiscal Cliff Plan
“This is the approach that garnered the President a lot of support in the election”.
HATFIELD, Penn. — A White House spokesman expressed shock Frida that Republicans were shocked by the administration’s proposal to solve the fiscal cliff.
“There was nothing included in those discussions that would surprise you,” spokesman Josh Earnest express told reporters about Air Force One, when asked if the White House would release the proposal which got Republicans riled up on Thursday when presented to the congressional leadership by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. “I was surprised they [GOP] were surprised…There is no reason for anybody to be surprised.”
Earnest reiterated that the election gave Obama leverage to ask to raise taxes on the rich.
“This is the approach that garnered the president a lot of support in the election,” he said, saying that also means Republicans are at odds with the American people.
Earnest would not go into detail on Obama's plans to reform entitlements, but said it included $100 billion in savings from medicare prescriptions drug purchases, and from means testing the program for wealthier Americans.
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Drawing by Russian artist Yury Annenkov triumphs at Sotheby’s fetching $1.6 m
Fragment of the portrait of Vsevolod Meyerhold by Yury Annenkov (Image from sothebys.com)A pencil portrait by renowned Russian avant-garde artist Yury Annenkov has set a record at Sotheby’s annual Russian Art Sale having fetched $1.6 million, 20 times the estimate. The portrait was the most expensive lot of the auction. Sotheby’s was auctioning the collection ofRussian-born Hollywood composer Dmitry Tiomkin. He was close with both the artist Yury Annenkov and the subject of the record-setting artwork, theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold. He also had opera legend Fyodor Chaliapin, poets Vladimir Mayakovsky and Aleksandr Blok among his personal friends, along with many other important figures of the Russian avant-garde movement. The 1922 drawing of Vsevolod Meyerhold comes from a series of Seventeen Portraits by Yury Annenkov, who perfected his style in portraiture. It was estimated to fetch between $32,000 and $80,000. The lot eventually sold for $1.6 million becoming the most expensive artwork in the sale. Vladimir Weisberg’s 1973 drawing Reclining Nude tripled expert expectations. Initially estimated to sell for between $64,000 and $110,000 it eventually fetched $366,000. The auction held in London on November 27 fetched a total of almost $9 million in the sale.Tiomkin worked with suc
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h masters of US cinema as Frank Capra and Alfred Hitchcock. The composer went on to become one of Hollywood’s most decorated composers. He scooped 22 Academy Award nominations and won 4 Oscars for, among others, his scores for High Noon (1952) and The Old Man and the Sea (1958).Yury Annenkov was a Russian avant-garde artist best known for his book illustrations and graphic portraits. He ended his life in Paris in 1974. … Read More
Small minds crimp my style
Dear Cary,I am writing to you for advice because I need it and from reading your column over time I have found you to be compassionate and perceptive and wise.I would like advice on how to conduct myself. And I don’t want advice on how to conduct myself.I am almost 24 years old. A year ago I moved to a new city to be with a young man I’d been dating for four years. We were long-distance all through college and loved each other a lot. We lived together all last year and broke up three months ago.It was pleasant and comfortable but not the life I wanted. He and I grew up a lot during our relationship but our lifestyles remained quite different. I ended it because I felt the differences lay in personalities rather than habit, unlikely to change. It ceased to be what I wanted.Newly single, I have made many new friends and am finally starting to feel like a part of a community in a city that still feels new.Only now, it’s begun to feel small. I plunged into dating gleefully, enjoying the attention and novelty.Continue Reading… … Read More
