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Prina thus suggests that the public’s tendency to prize the more prosaic elements of art often constrain other forms of creativity. For the groups who organize happenings, his comments underscore the necessity that their events remain spontaneous and work free of college bureaucracy. However, the defiant nature of the work—working in public space without the direct consent of College officials—leads to conflict with the Arts Collective’s, Present!’s and other groups’ use of University resources...
Nuclear Showdown IRAN Days after the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approved a resolution demanding that Iran suspend all uranium-enrichment activities, a defiant Tehran announced that it had started the conversion of some 37 tons of uranium oxide (yellowcake) into UF6-gas - the feed material for enriched uranium. Iran denies its enrichment efforts are part of a weapons program, claiming they are for electricity generation, which the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) permits. A senior official at Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Hossein Mousavian, argued that " Iran cannot be subjected only to the limitations of the treaty...
...burst into the open last week. As riots rocked Gaza, parliamentarians threatened a hunger strike unless Arafat agreed to reform his corrupt administration and hand over control of the military to a new Prime Minister to replace Ahmed Qurei, who wants to resign. But so far Arafat has remained defiant, refusing to accept Qurei's resignation, accusing opponents of a conspiracy to shove him aside and denying that he will give up any power. "I'm not going to surrender," Arafat said in a meeting with Qurei, sources who were there told TIME. "I do what I want...
...government of Sudan remains defiant, however. In a statement issued yesterday, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail dismissed the suggestion that any foreign intervention was necessary, threatening that U.S., British or U.N. intervention would only aggravate the situation...
...dependent regimes in Kabul and Baghdad would leave Iran feeling surrounded and crank up the pressure on the Mullahs in Tehran, if anything the opposite appears to have occurred. The conduct of the hard-liners - from stealing the most recent parliamentary election in broad daylight to their defiant handling of the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigation of Iran's nuclear program and their hardball negotiations with the U.S. over the fate of al-Qaeda leaders in Iranian custody - suggests, if anything, that they're feeling rather lucky...