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...Chen pushes ahead with the legislation, the KMT may find itself not only on the brink of political irrelevance but also on the edge of financial ruin. The value of its holdings have plummeted of late, a descent accelerated by Taiwan's struggling economy. KMT officials say the total value of all their assets have plunged to a relatively meager $1.6 billion. That includes $1.16 billion worth of businesses, real estate valued at more than $250 million and the rest in bank deposits, stocks and bonds...
...Seaside, painted in 1905 when the artist was 21, confirmed his own early stylistic assessment of himself as being "between Cézanne and Van Gogh." But after his experience as a medical orderly in Flanders in 1915, which led to a nervous breakdown, his paintings, such as The Descent from the Cross in 1917, took on a medieval starkness, and many of his figures became deformed by pain. His work began to reflect a cool empathy for the human condition, a stance Beckmann considered an artistic duty after the war. "I feel the need to be in the cities...
This two-cultured upbringing formed the root of his 1999 memoir, Kinship: A Family’s Journey in Africa and America, which described his life experiences and explored broader differences between Africans and Americans born of African descent...
...reserved for title-conscious ex-colonials. "Calcutta still has an isolated aging set with British titles," he writes. On St. Kitts, "the governor is a Negro knight from another island." And in Belize, "the Premier likes to use titles." These are unlikely observations from a Trinidadian of Indian descent who accepted a British knighthood with both hands. But, along with many other characterizations in this collection, they are from the archive. Naipaul has ceased to be so breezy and has stopped accepting the sort of assignments that in the past resulted in such essays, some of them exquisitely subtle, others...
India did. The iron law of the nuclear age is this: nuclear weapons are instruments of madness; their actual use would be a descent into madness, but the threat to use them is not madness. On the contrary, it is exceedingly logical...