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...Months after my return to the States, I encountered my first Varma painting while flipping through my high-school art-history textbook. (My class never got to the section on Indian art, which wasn’t covered on the AP Exam.) I would come to blame artists like Varma for the exaggerated deference I’d witnessed firsthand in India. In a country with such a rich artistic tradition, I found myself asking: What compelled a Keralite to adopt a European vocabulary to produce something meaningful and aesthetically pleasing...
...Your lack of compassion and common sense in choosing to put this image ... on the front page of multiple American newspapers is appalling.' ROBERT GATES, Defense Secretary, in a letter to the AP...
Sources: Reuters; AP; AFP; Reuters; Times of London; New York Times...
...Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the Associated Press that Obama had assured him in a phone call that plans to alter the missile-defense project would not hurt Poland's security. But some were skeptical. "It's not good," former Polish President and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa told the AP. "I can see what kind of policy the Obama Administration is pursuing towards this part of Europe. The way we are being approached needs to change." Aleksander Szczyglo, head of Poland's National Security Office, characterized the change as a "defeat primarily of American long-distance thinking about the situation...
...announcement "confirms the close cooperation between the U.S. and NATO allies on developing antimissile systems." Rasmussen also said missile defense would continue in an altered form. "It is my clear impression that the American plan on missile defense will involve NATO ... to a higher degree in the future," the AP reported him as saying. "This is a positive step in the direction of an inclusive and transparent process, which I also think is in the interest of ... the NATO alliance...