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...wasn’t out there to make art for the ages,” Schork says. “This really has nothing to do with creating great art, it’s really all about process with the kids. And if they want to sit on the curb for hours looking at books of Egyptian art, hey, that’s cool with...
...Baker's sense of self-importance and entitlement. In 1971, Suzuki died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 69. Before he did so, he established Baker as his sole American dharma heir, making him the uncontestable arbiter of Zen Center's fate. The honor did nothing to curb Baker's more questionable character traits. "In a time when we had very little money," one Zen Center member tells Downing, "he thought nothing of spending $20,000 on a statue that he happened to like. He loved objects ... He liked objects in the way someone else likes...
...Police Powers After fierce debate, a rare joint session of Parliament voted to pass new anti-terrorism legislation allowing for 90 days' detention without trial. Opposition parties said they feared security forces would misuse their wider powers of arrest, but the ruling BJP said the bill was necessary to curb terrorist attacks in Kashmir and elsewhere...
...Middle East if Iraq were under more benign leadership, including an end to sanctions that hurt Iraqi civilians and less incentive for Iran to counter Iraq with wmds of its own. One Labour official predicts that once Blair is through with this sales pitch, public support for action to curb Iraq's wmds will climb toward...
...calm the situation. So does the Bush administration, which has belatedly discovered the extent to which Israeli-Palestinian violence prevents Arab allies from supporting a war to unseat Saddam Hussein. Arafat will have seen, over the past two weeks, how the wider U.S. agenda created pressure on Israel to curb its own military operations, leaving Sharon exposed politically - and bringing down Sharon's government is as much part of Arafat's agenda as destroying Arafat is an obsession of Sharon...