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...single best work, a painting, hangs at the Samson Projects. Entitled “A Blaze of Glory, Flame Red Double Knit,” it depicts, on a shiny canvas, two women in red, their bodies cropped from mid-thigh to collarbone. The detail is luminous, close to photographic; each wrinkle in the outfits is executed with finesse, while the bodies of the women are mysterious and elegant. It calls into question the status of the faceless females without making the statement on feminine identity and body image too obvious...
...TONS Amount of cow manure that caught fire in a feedlot near Lincoln, Neb. The blaze was attributed to heat pent up inside the pile...
...countries, including Australia and New Zealand. A U.S. Customs agent handed over a cd containing the names to New Zealand police and Customs officers in about September last year, says U.S. Customs spokeswoman Jamie Zuieback. In Australia, starting last July, authorities rounded up hundreds of suspects in a blaze of publicity. A police source says one of the targets moved to New Zealand before the raids; Australian police passed on his name to their Kiwi counterparts over four months...
...INQUIRY CONCLUDED. Into the 2002 TRAIN FIRE in Gujarat, India that killed 59 Hindu pilgrims and triggered the retaliatory slaughter of 2,000 Muslims in three days of mob violence; by an investigative panel in New Delhi. Retired Judge Umesh Chandra Banerjee's committee said the blaze, blamed on Muslim assailants by Hindu nationalist officials, was probably caused by someone cooking or smoking inside the coaches. Although forensic evidence seems to support the panel's conclusions, many observers have called the findings politically motivated...
...their sheep are dead, and the local township of Wanilla "looks like a scene from the Second World War," says Leith. Still, they know how lucky they are. Many friends have lost homes. Close friend Neil Richardson and another resident, Trent Murnane, died fighting the blaze. The men didn't live in the fire-affected area but, like many others, had volunteered to help. Another friend of the Holmans has lost her two grandchildren, three-year-old Star Borlase and two-year-old Jack, who died with their other grandmother, Judy Griffith, in a car near the Borlase farm...