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...Kudielka points out in his catalog introduction, Klee's work was not rooted in any movement. However abstract, it came out of the experience of nature and culture blended. Perhaps the decisive moment in Klee's early career was a 1914 visit that he and his friend August Macke paid to Tunisia, where the warm, sparse earth colors, the heat and the townscape of Hammamet, a desert construction of white boxes and bubbling domes, affected him so powerfully that he was at last able to tell his diary that "color and I are one. I am a painter." The vision...
...political relevance of the Commonwealth may be coming under attack in the wake of Zimbabwe's disputed elections, but that beleaguered group of 54 nations - many of them former British colonies - will have at least one reason to celebrate when its athletes gather in Manchester in July and August for this year's Commonwealth Games. For the first time, disabled athletes will take part in the sporting carnival as full members of their national teams, with disabled events - which include an 800-m wheelchair race, table-tennis singles and 50-m and 100-m swimming races - incorporated into the Games...
...More than that, it's another blow to an august institution. Races at the club's Happy Valley and Sha Tin tracks are an obsession to hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong punters, who gather in the bleachers, at off-track betting outlets and in front of TVs in countless noodle shops whenever the ponies are at the post. The club's takings ($1.4 billion last year) make it Hong Kong's largest taxpayer as well as the SAR's most dependable charitable donor. Gambling money has built playgrounds, cultural centers and other civic improvements around the city...
...declined from 72% to 52%, their office was visited by senior officials of the Defense Ministry, the Ministry of University Affairs and the Special Branch police?all on the same day and without warning. When Chulakorn Singhakowin, head of the Thai Bankers Association, said in an interview last August that Thailand could face a 10-year recession, Thaksin exploded in response, telling him to "shut...
When she became secretary-general of Amnesty International last August, says Irene Khan, international human-rights groups like the million-strong, 40-year-old organization she had been tapped to head were in danger of becoming complacent. "Sept. 11 and everything that happened after, all the antiterrorist legislation, the rapid rolling back of civil liberties in so many countries," put a swift stop to that, says Khan...