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...Building Cambodia: 'New Khmer Architecture' 1953-1970 Helen Grant Ross and Darryl Leon Collins Everyone has heard of Angkor Wat, but very few are aware of that other great flowering of Khmer architectural genius-namely, the New Khmer Architecture that emerged in Phnom Penh amid the heady national pride that followed Cambodia's independence from France in 1953. Building Cambodia documents the tragically short-lived style that resulted in a spate of striking buildings until its demise amid civil war and genocide not two decades later. Taking seven years of research to complete, and packed with rare photographs and illustrations...
That Pinochet overthrew a democratically-elected government with CIA backing is common knowledge. What is often omitted from the news is that the government of Salvador Allende—which he deposed—came to power in 1970 with Soviet financing and a mere 36 percent electoral plurality, amid allegations of massive voter fraud that would later prove true. Allende turned Chile’s economy on its head, putting thousands out of work and home and expropriating the assets of the poorest of Chileans, who were left to stand starving in Soviet-style bread queues. Bands of revolutionary...
...Ghost Map, Steven Johnson gives a ground-zero account of the outbreak that would take 50,000 lives before it was done. "Imagine the terror and panic," he writes, "if a biological attack killed 4,000 otherwise healthy New Yorkers over a 20-day period. Living amid cholera in 1854 was like living in a world where urban tragedies on that scale happened week after week...
...your humble critics reply. We've slogged to dozens of screening rooms, propped our eyes open with toothpicks and dutifully agreed (poor us) to be paid to watch the movies you will soon pay to see. Amid the welter of ordinary movies and atrocious ones, we've found nine worthies--some with just good intentions, many that hit the mark. These are the more ambitious films on display this month, and they ardently hope to be around on the last Sunday night in February. For this is the season when kids write to Santa, and Hollywood starts dreaming of Oscar...
...Whatever the truth behind Mahmoud's death, it was not an isolated incident but came amid outbreaks of violence in several mixed Sunni-Shi'ite areas of Beirut this week that have left dozens injured and inflamed sectarian tensions. Hundreds of Lebanese troops have deployed in Beirut's trouble spots. But using the Lebanese Army in this way is untenable, warned its commander, General Michel Suleiman. Suleiman says that sectarian violence "drains the army's resources and weakens its neutrality," and warned, "This weakness will make the army unable to control the situation in all areas of Lebanon...