Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 25, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba B6 world Fiji i 2001 Amandas Art nets big but shed work for bananas painting primate part of zoo program to stimulate animals her Art is abstract at her methods Are but her stuff Sells for hundreds of on the 24yearold artist woke up late and sleepily climbed a cargo net to Greet her studio and banana peels Lay rotting where they been carelessly Amanda normally paints Only once a but when inspiration strikes the 45kilogram she expects to Start Shes getting a Little Como zoo keeper Mike Thell said As he readied bottles of nontoxic poster what happens she starts to slurping through heavy Hainlink Amanda dipped her Brush into Pur ple and yellow bottles held up by after each thoughtful she popped the Brush into her Mouth and slurped it there was much slurp after a few Amanda handed the Brush Back to Thell and swept excess paint from the paper with pointed colours giving the piece the look of a Childs Finger she usually gives it the Tongue Sig Thell after a Little coaxing from Amanda Slid her creation under the Cage door and flashed a Blu stained later Amandas Art debuted to the Public at the zoos primate exhibit More than 400 people arrived to bid on 22 framed the auction raised about us for the the top Price for a work called like the weather zoo officials wont say who titles Amanda was not shy about Demon Strating her skills to the we know that she likes the said zoo spokeswoman Jennifer Lauer she definitely knew what was Amanda the orangutan paints in her zoo going the orangutan started painting in june As part of the zoos enrichment meant to stimulate captive the program challenges gorillas to unlock treats from plastic has a Polar Bear work its Way through a Block of ice to reach a Frozen fish and lets Lions Roll around in their Favourite herbs and Amanda shares a Cage with three other orangutans but is the zoos Only her usual Reward is of Koolard or Orange Andy press Shes highly intelligent so far As orangutans seem to Thell she took right to painting after a couple of demonstrations of what to do with paint and he Shes not the first zoo animal to delve into paintings by an elephant named Ruby at the Phoenix zoo fetched As much As a Dolphin at the Marine science Center took up a Brush in 1992 and originals went for As much As associated press Rich grateful to Clinton for humanitarian Pardon by Dina Kraft Jerusalem fugitive financier Marc whose let hour Pardon by former president Bill Clinton has caused a wave of spoke out for the first time describing the Pardon As a humanitarian in a statement distributed by a pub Lic relations office in Tel Rich said that his 1983 indictment on charges of evading More than Mil lion in fraud and illegal Oil deals with iran was a wrong remedied by i do not con Sider the Par Don granted by president Clin ton As an eradication of past deeds but As the closing of a Cycle of Justice and a humanitarian Rich said in the the Pardon is now subject to con Gressional hearings and a Federal Rich described his the indictment against me in the United states was wrong and was meant to Hurt me personally the Pardon granted by president Clinton reme died this injustice 18 years later Marc Rich life abroad for the past 18 years As a painful saying he was forced to live outside the United states because he did not think he would receive a fair trial the belgian born Rich grew up in the United states but renounced his he holds israeli and Spanish citizenship and has lived in Switzerland since the indictment against me in the United states was wrong and was meant to Hurt me personally the Pardon granted by president Clinton remedied this injustice 18 years Rich Rich regularly shuns interviews and soc rated press archives Clinton remedied injustice has not spoken publicly since receiving the Pardon 20 Clinton last Day in he said he issued the statement in response to the height ened Media in the statement Rich lamented that he has not been Able to return to the United states to visit with his children and he said he was heartbroken by the refusal of authorities to let him visit the deathbed or to later attend the Funer Al of his daughter who died of leukaemia in 1996 at age Rich also defended his work As a philanthropist in the i am Happy and proud of my contributions to people and cultural and medical organizations in the United states and around the it is unfortunate that these acts Are now being described As calculating said Clinton has cited High level israeli support of Rich As one of the reasons he pardoned the outgoing prime minister Ehud Barak and a for Mer chief of the Mossad spy Agency were among top israeli officials who pushed Clinton to Pardon Over the past 20 Rich has contributed up to million to israeli symphonies and to the absorption of he also had a role in helping Israel get jews out of Ethiopia and associated press peanuts Cathy Garfield diet soda it a mans refrigerator used to be a sure sign that he 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