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Many Arabs are still deeply angered by the U.S. treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected terrorists at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. When the detainees first began to arrive there in January 2002, Rumsfeld said the U.S. was planning--"for the most part"--to treat them in a manner "reasonably consistent" with the Geneva Conventions. Human-rights groups howled that he was waffling on the long-standing U.S. commitment to the global agreement. The Bush Administration argued that the conventions weren't appropriate for many detainees because they were essentially criminals--that is, terrorists without countries...
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...first day of Gulf War II, shock and awe came to San Francisco. Antiwar protesters had long pledged that if bombs fell on Baghdad, they would unite to "stop business as usual" in America's major cities. Here's how they fared by the Bay: 40 intersections shut down by human blockades. Hay bales set on fire in the streets around the Transamerica Building. Police-car windows smashed all over town. A vomit-in by a small group at the base of the Federal Building to demonstrate that the war made them sick. 1,350 arrests--the highest...
Asian art had a foothold in the U.S. as early as the 18th century, when blue and white Chinese porcelain was a mark of wealth and taste in households, like Thomas Jefferson's, that could afford it. Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival in Tokyo Bay in 1853, which forced Meiji Japan to open itself to Western influence, led to a concurrent craze in Europe and the U.S. for all things Japanese. By the turn of the century Ernest Fenollosa and William Sturgis Bigelow, learned Bostonians infatuated with Japan, were assembling the great collections of furniture, scrollwork, carvings and prints that...
...mystery why the largest American museum devoted to Asian art should be located in a city where some 40% of the population is of Asian descent, chiefly Chinese and Philippine, but including Indian, Pakistani, Lao, Vietnamese and Korean too. "We also know all of the 30 Mongolians in the Bay Area personally," says Emily Sano, the museum's director...