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Reading Beijing Doll often makes you feel you're stuck on the phone with a mopey teenager who takes herself too seriously. The book is dense with melodramatic passages such as "I wanted to say that no one could plug the hole in my heart, that it was lost, that...
"One thing a camera does superbly is to seize the moment. Last week, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art put on a show of pictures?each made in a wink?which brought back moments from the past decade more vividly than memory can. They were candid camera shots snapped by...
Zakaria's words seem harshly out of place in this sleepy village of narrow lanes and rattan-and-straw shacks. But despite its peaceful air, Tenggulun could reasonably be described as ground zero for militant Islam in Indonesia. Al-Islam school was founded in the early 1990s by two brothers...
Asasma Butt walked up to the entrance of the Lycée Rabelais in northern Paris last Thursday - the first day of school for students across France - she did something she didn't want to do. She removed her black head scarf, a symbol of her Muslim faith. France's...
Like the Sphinx, La Grande Jatte does not travel. Since the painting entered the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1926, it has been lent just once, to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City for a Seurat retrospective in 1958. After it arrived there...