If the money being raised by Ms. Sebelius is being spent to do an end-run around Congress, then the Obama administration had better brush up on its Iran-Contra history.

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The remaining half of the country's goats, which are bred and raised for other purposes, including work as brush-clearers, can end up behind the butcher glass.

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It took about a month to make all three paintings, a process that was slowed by Mr. Boyle's request that Mr. Cobb shoot stop-motion photographs every few brush strokes, for a sequence toward the end of the film in which the painting gets "unpainted" so that the audience can appreciate all the layers involved in creating the work.

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