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SEOUL: As riot police fired tear gas canisters, 3,000 protesters in downtown Seoul hurled chunks of concrete ripped from sidewalks and beat police with pipes, shouting "No to the evil law!" Similar clashes involving thousands of marchers occurred in Anyang city, near Seoul, and in Daejon, south of the capital, where seven workers were hospitalized after being clubbed by police, and eight others were detained for questioning. The government is coupling the crackdown on the streets with one in the courts, deciding Thursday to pursue arrest warrants for union leaders. Judge Lee Sang-chul ordered seven leaders...
...recent move comes as part of Yale's attempt to bring in more recognized brand-name stores to economically-depressed downtown New Haven...
...closed, in some places by washouts as much as 100 feet wide. In Idaho, US 95, the state's only north-south roadway, has been blocked by mudslides, forcing motorists to detour through Oregon and Washington. Thursday saw the worst flooding so far, as the Truckee River roared through downtown Reno, closing government offices, the Reno-Tahoe International Airport and many casinos for the first time in memory. In Washington, floods and mudslides continue to plague the state, even with the easing of the week-long deluge of rain and snow. Flood warnings are still in effect for 11 rivers...
...capital of Riyadh, and they watch as an executioner swings his sword and cuts off the heads of public enemies. That was the punishment meted out to four young men earlier this year after they confessed to the November 1995 bombing of an American-run training center in downtown Riyadh, an attack that killed seven people including five U.S. advisers. Chop-chop square is also likely to be the destination of some if not all of the 40 suspects the Saudis now have in custody for last June's Khobar Towers bombing near Dhahran, a blast that took the lives...
...show of this and 19 other Beckmann paintings at the downtown branch of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City is--no other word for it--a revelation. Beckmann, who died in 1950, was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, but he remains comparatively underknown in Manhattan. Thirty-one years have passed since a New York museum devoted a show to his work. Why this should be, one can only guess. Presumably it has something to do with the belief that purely abstract painting was the climax of modernism, so that a painter whose entire sensibility...