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...never be tried by the international body. The old soldier - afflicted with heart disease, diabetes and walking difficulties - declared: "They can carry me out of my house only when I am dead. Not wounded. Dead." The indictment has roused a sleepy Croatian nationalism, opening the door to a legal clash between Croatia - which is challenging the indictment and refusing (so far) to hand over Bobetko - and the U.N. war-crimes court. A second front has opened, too, along domestic political lines. Prime Minister Ivica Racan's weak center-left coalition faces a population that largely regards Bobetko as a titan...
...managed to avoid a protracted urban skirmish during the past decade, Saddam wants to provoke just such a fight. If the Bush Administration's goal is Saddam's ouster--and if Iraq's soldiers dig in for the battle--the U.S. may be unable to avoid an armed clash in Baghdad...
...many of us turn to scholarship—for instance, to Princeton historian Bernard Lewis, who has described a narrative of Muslim bitterness provoked by a crusading Christian West. In his 1990 essay, The Roots of Muslim Rage, Lewis concludes that the U.S. and Islam represent worlds fated to clash...
...inspired so-called Expressionism, and the Merzbacher collection has 40 examples from the two groups of artists that pioneered the movement. The first, based in Dresden, called itself Die Brücke (The Bridge). The paintings of Erich Heckel, Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluf look like a clash of Van Gogh meeting Nietzsche: fierce color contrasts are used to depict a passionate intensity. In Heckel's Red Roofs (1909), the evening scarlet of the tiles spreads out across the flaming sky, where flicks of royal blue dance recklessly. A house and garden have become hallucinatory. Expressionism's second...
What makes this last stand of Swiss banking secrecy particularly intriguing is the clash between morality and money, as well as the underlying geopolitics. On the one hand, many Swiss see secrecy as a cornerstone of the nation?s prosperity, something that gives Switzerland an edge in the competition among global financial centers. The Swiss are world leaders in managing cross-border private wealth, holding more than a quarter of the total assets parked by residents of one country in another. (Use the word offshore to a Swiss banker and you?re liable to get a half-hour lecture...