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...deference. Moreover, members of the black upper class tend to inhabit places where they stick out. They work with colleagues who, if only for statistical reasons, don't have to worry about being confused with a suspect. They live in neighborhoods where they might be the only people of color on the block. This sense of insecurity, of not quite being at home, coupled with the unwillingness of an agent of the state to explain why he's on your property, might lead even the mellowest among us to see shadowy intentions in what probably was just sloppy police work...
...father just last month said he saw dozens of graves in the cemetary's newest sector - presumably, he said, of young protesters killed in the violence following the disputed June 12 presidential election. "There were green ribbons hanging by many of the graves," he said, in reference to the color used by the opposition movement. "Some were just days...
...Europe. And Taiwan companies continue to show an ability to innovate. For example, Optoma, a leading maker of digital projectors, recently created the world's smallest projector, the Pico PK101. Delta Electronics, a supplier of power adapters, is coming out next year with a full-color e-book reader that is thinner and lighter than Amazon's Kindle and plays video...
Ensor drew lessons in form and color from Turner, Courbet and Manet, but the spirit of his work, the mad afflatus of his gift, owes more to the Germans. His devils are inherited from Bosch and Brueghel. His taste for the grotesque traces back to Grünewald. He, in turn, would hand on his caustic vision of humanity to the German Expressionists, younger artists like Emil Nolde and Ernst Kirchner who saw the possibilities in his combination of sour disposition and strident palette...
...news to trip up Tehran's grid. It features quickie "blitz" street demonstrations, lasting just long enough to chant "Death to the dictator!" several times but short enough to evade security forces. It involves identifying paramilitary Basij vigilantes linked to the crackdown and putting marks in green - the opposition color - or pictures of protest victims in front of their homes. It is scribbled antiregime slogans on money. And it is defiant drivers honking horns, flashing headlights and waving V signs at security forces. (See pictures of Iran's presidential election and its turbulent aftermath...