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...walking through the Moscow subway system when a woman grabbed my arm and said in Russian, “Hide your wallet. The Gypsies are crying.” It was only later that I realized what her cryptic warning meant. In Russia, I was repeatedly warned to avoid Gypsies at all costs because of the risk of becoming a victim of Gypsy hypnosis. This practice, in which Gypsies attempt to hypnotize subway riders and others in Russia so that they give away all their money, is a growing problem in Russia; the tough economic climate and social ostracism...

Author: By Charles A. Lacalle | Title: Racism and the Romani | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...masterpiece in which pools of color supply a world where turbulent figures claw the air. But once the bad times began, they never quit. In 1946 a fire in his Connecticut studio destroyed more than 20 paintings. Then came rectal cancer and a car accident that left his painting arm temporarily immobilized. Then his wife left him, taking the kids. In despair and constant pain, he hanged himself. He was only 46 - a short life, but long enough to be a hinge that history turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arshile Gorky: The Shape Shifter | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...piece for an hour; Elizabeth C. Walker ‘11—one of the show’s directors and a performer—has a “cabriole” injected into her step sequence to smooth out a transition, while standardizing arm movements are added to an ensemble segment. Kuperman stops Kevin Shee ’11 to give him a pointer on the artistic delivery of his solo entrance: “This needs to be so grounded—like a mummy coming to life. Everything starts in the core of the body...

Author: By Monica S. Liu | Title: Pointe of Departure | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...Soon after Munley fired at Hasan, taking him down, she fell, wounded, and police radios quickly sent out an "Officer down" call. Wounded three times in the arm and leg, Munley is in stable condition after undergoing surgery on Friday to repair damage to an artery. Base officials said she wished she could have acted even faster and saved more lives and that she spent Thursday evening calling friends and colleagues, expressing those regrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fort Hood Hero: Who Is Kimberly Munley? | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...foreclosures that are being caused by unemployment. If you don't have a steady stream of income, you don't qualify for those loan-modification programs. People with those problems will inevitably wind up going into foreclosure. Secondly, we're going to see a whole slew of option-ARM loans reset next year. In many cases, these properties are going to be upside on the loan amount. In other words, the homes will be worth less than what's owed on the loans. The only way these loans will qualify for modifications is if the lenders took a huge principal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: The Outlook for Home Foreclosures | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

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