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...Greens went along but 18 of them protested that the raise sends the "wrong message." Maybe their next move will be to release their own protest song. REPARATIONS Apartheid's Courtroom Drama Companies that thought they had seen the end of lawsuits stemming from the horrors of the 20th century had better think again. Last week lawyers representing over 33,000 South Africans sued 22 multinational companies, including Barclays, DaimlerChrysler and IBM, for dealing with South Africa's apartheid regime after the United Nations declared the system a crime against humanity. The suit, filed in New York by the Khulumani...
...four times, because my novels are easy to read," Murakami says. "But the stories are not easy to understand." In A Wild Sheep Chase and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, for example, he examines complex issues, such as Japan's brutal colonialism in the first half of the 20th century, while also portraying his characters' struggles to reconcile their hopes and fears with the lives they lead. In any case, popularity doesn't shame him: "Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so ... I have to compete...
When Agatha arrived at Harvard is a matter of some debate—while the police and social services recall her presence in the Square at least two or three years ago, Agatha says she only arrived in June 2001 for her 20th Reunion...
...dawn on Sept. 20th, a handful of FBI agents looked on as two Hong Kong police situation teams stormed the three hotel rooms. The three men gave no resistance. "We didn't have to draw our guns," says a senior Hong Kong police officer. "They went in a peaceful...
...love it, you dream it, you need it, you buy it, you forget it, is too big to fit in the museum, so it covers the four-story facade of the Galeria Kaufhof on Frankfurt's main shopping drag. Inside, there are some 200 artworks - photos of early 20th century shop fronts by Walker Evans, Eug?ne Atget and Berenice Abbott, surrealist mannequin displays and Fluxus conceptual art reconstructions. The installations are the most eye-catching. For the first time since it was shown in New York in 1964, American Supermarket, a collaboration by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and others...