By R. C. Gorman

Rudolph Carl Gorman (July 26, 1931 - November 3, 2005) was a Native American artist of the Navajo nation. Referred to as "the Picasso of American art" by the New York Times, his paintings are primarily of Native American women and characterized by fluid forms and vibrant colors, though he also worked in sculpture, ceramics, and stone lithography. He was also an avid lover of cuisine, authoring four cookbooks, (with accompanying drawings) called Nudes and Food. His famous friends and collectors of his work included Elizabeth Taylor, Danny DeVito, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barry Goldwater, Gregory Peck, Erma Bombeck, Lee Marvin, Jackie Onassis and even fellow artist Andy Warhol, who silk-screened a portrait of Gorman that hung in his bathroom.

Gorman moved from California to New Mexico, opening his Navajo Gallery in Taos in 1968. It was the first Native American-owned art gallery.

Barack Obama

"Sometimes I go to an eighth grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers and I think to myself, 'It's just eighth grade.' To really compete, they need to graduate high school and they need to graduate college and they probably need a graduate degree too. An eighth grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library. It's up to us as fathers and parents to instill this ethic of excellence in our children.

Jim Jubak

"I have to read this because it's important that I get this exactly right. This is what Vikram Pandit, the new CEO of Citigroup told a gathering of 300 Wall Street Analysts in the first week of May. 'The infrastructure of of this company has never been fully integrated.' Now he tells us.

"Ten years after the merger that put together Citigroup - putting together the brokerage firms and the insurance companies and a bank there were going to create this incredible financial super market. Ten years after that it turns out that nobody ever did the hard work of putting all the pieces together..."