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...Cairo sends troops to the disputed Halaib region claimed by both countries. Tensions have been escalating since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused Sudan's leader Hassan Turabi of planning last week's assasination attempt in Ethiopia. In response to Sudan's threats, an angry Mubarak warned that Egypt would confront "those who play with fire in Khartoum...
...After the Deluge" serves as the first show in a very long while to confront what one might call the flip side of American postwar supremacy. Everyone knows that after 1945 the center of world art moved to New York. Paris no longer "mattered" much. Once this dogma took hold, Americans lost interest in most new European art; the New York School pushed it off the radar screen, and it apparently lost the mandate of art history. The new, swelling museum culture in the U.S. tended to ignore it. In the early 1950s the prewar masters remained-Picasso, Matisse, Braque...
...survey the entire territory he hopes to conquer-and plot the ambush he says can clinch that victory. By fall, Gingrich predicted in an interview with TIME, the Republican Congress will have passed a raft of bills to implement its seven-year plan to balance the budget and will confront Bill Clinton with an excruciating choice. He will have to sign on to spending cuts that will inflame his Democratic supporters or veto them and force the shutdown of all but the most essential federal functions, such as air-traffic control and the mailing of Social Security checks...
...ready to set up a separate company to distribute Kids. There will be, he vows, no scissoring to get an R rating. As for Clark, he proclaims himself mystified by the clamor: "There's very little nudity in the film. It's just that no one wants to confront the fact that in 1995, kids are having...
Hate groups have always been as American as hominy grits. Rather than seek a new enemy without, Americans should confront the old enemy within...