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...proliferation of new galleries, and the increasing profile of the art market, is forcing Indians to think about how they value the art of the past, present and future - and perhaps appreciate all of it more. More Indians are certainly being exposed to art than ever. "It's almost becoming like a way of life," says Mumbai painter Papri Bose. And you can't put a price on that...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. government views the case as wholly separate from the other issues now dividing Pyongyang and Washington. But Pyongyang almost certainly does not. For a regime that acts more like a Mafia family than a government, kidnapping has been a tactic North Korea has used for decades. Relations between Japan and North Korea are inflamed precisely because of revelations that for years the North kidnapped Japanese and then used them to train North Korean spies in Japanese language, culture and history. At a moment when Washington is pledging to get tough, Pyongyang "will...
...author derides what she calls conspiracy theories. She should just scratch the surface and see they are not so far-fetched: almost all nations, especially big powers, carry out clandestine activities to promote their strategic interests. Assassinating political leaders, engineering insurgencies and instigating conflict between target states are common - and the U.S. is not innocent in this matter. Tariq Majeed, Lahore...
...media are reinforcing the nation's paranoia," [June 1]. But you don't need to go to Pakistan. There was another example in the same edition, in "Postcard: Ramallah." Israel was forced to build the wall to try and prevent what is happening in Pakistan and Iraq, where almost daily innocent people are killed. Walls in other countries are also ugly - but they protect people. Carlos Blatt, TEL AVIV...
...hard to read too much into the result when almost three out of five voters failed to turn up at the ballot box, and when campaigning was mostly based on distinctly local, and sometimes trivial, issues. "European election campaigns are run on national agendas, and national governments use the E.U. as a scapegoat," says European Commission Vice President Margot Wallström. "If all the failures are the fault of Brussels and all the successes are because of national government, then it becomes very difficult to mobilize voters for these elections...