Word: clouded
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...election campaign to lead the semi-autonomous region of 5 million people. The vote comes just seven weeks after Provenzano was captured by police in the hills near his hometown of Corleone, following four decades on the lam. And beyond that high-profile arrest, and Cuffaro's legal cloud, there is a center-left challenger whose very presence offers a stark reminder of organized crime's grip on this complicated island. Cuffaro's rival is Rita Borsellino, 60, the sister of Paolo Borsellino, a prominent magistrate who was killed by the Mafia in 1992 when his parked car was blown...
...education President. One of the hallmarks of an educated person is willingness to critically evaluate evidence for and against hypotheses: in this case, that Iraq had wmd and was supporting al-Qaeda. For that, I give him an F in critical thinking and in leadership. Joseph Melcher St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S. Unbearable - and Unmissable As upsetting as I expect it will be, I still would like to see United 93 [April 17]. That plane's story was the only relatively "good" news on that horrible day. When passenger Todd Beamer said, "Are you guys ready? Let's roll...
...Greeting the viewers as they enter the building are the large-scale photos of Michael Riley. The late Dubbo-born artist and filmmaker recalled growing up in central New South Wales, "lying down in the front yard looking up at telegraph poles and lines? cutting through the clouds." Made four years before his death, his final photo series cloud (2000) recaptures that view, though what float across the sky are poetic symbols of Aboriginal dispossession: European farm animals and vestiges of Christianity; even the boomerang returns to him as a weapon of racial stereotyping, beautiful but deadly. Riley...
...Judy Watson was another. And around to the left of cloud will be the artist's 11-m-long glass ceiling, inspired by her painting two halves with bailer shell, 2002, in the NGA collection. Floating in a glassy sea of Prussian and ultramarine blue, the sand-blasted image is deceptively beautiful: the Aboriginal bailer shell was drawn from a collection at the British Museum where a friend of Watson's was working last decade, and her work is about the sometimes painful process of cultural retrieval. Watson, 46, who traces her lineage to the Waanyi country of northwest Queensland...
...distant landlords. In 2002 the tiny isle of Gigha, off the west coast, was purchased by its residents. All but two local houses were near uninhabitable. Now the houses have been renovated, and 25 new jobs have been created, along with a wind farm. "It was like a big cloud lifting from the island," says Willie McSporran, who led the buyout. "One farmer told me: 'I went whistling and smiling to pay my rent, knowing that it wasn't going into the pocket of a laird.'" Last year Assynt's residents followed suit. The place had been stagnating, partly because...