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Among the first paintings Htein Lin made during his 61/2 years in a Burmese prison was a self-portrait. The likeness is only passing - he had no mirror in his cell - and the line is uncertain: in lieu of a brush, he used the pieces of a disassembled cigarette lighter. The theme couldn't be clearer, however. The artist's face is enshrouded by prison bars. Yet sprouting from his head is a verdant tangle of vines that sprawls to the painting's edge - a fierce assertion that the mind, unlike the body, will not be held captive. "While...
...Indeed, other than a few “actual” celebrities like Natalie Portman, the occasional figure skater, and the offspring of oil barons, Harvard celebrities are an eclectic lot, tangibly unified by little other than their high friend counts, full inboxes, and a few blurry cell-phone images. But somehow they all have achieved the supreme feat of making others interested in their lives...
...neighborhood in Elkhart that someone famous was on their street, the crowd had grown to around 200. But it was a mob with Indiana manners; they formed a line on the sidewalk and waited patiently for him to greet each in turn. One trembling teen-ager handed Obama a cell phone and asked him to say hello to her friend Hillary, a big Obama fan. "Hi Hillary!" Obama said with a mischevous grin, telling the crowd: "And she supports...
...Beijing's security concerns over the Olympics, however, are probably behind the new measures. In Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong's famous warren of drug dens, second-hand cell phone shops and budget hostels popular with petty traders from overseas, dozens of stranded merchants mill around helplessly. Many hold passports from a list of 33 countries, mostly from South Asia and the Middle East, whose citizens are now barred from applying for any entry permit to China in Hong Kong-a sign, perhaps, of China's concern about a potential Muslim terror threat. Mohammed Salim, a Karachi-based trader who makes...
Chivian, who shared a Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for his efforts to prevent nuclear war, cited stem cell research and the long-standing debate over evolution as points of contention between scientists and the Christian Right...