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Civilizations rise and fall, but decorative techniques hang around forever. At least that seems to be the case with trompe l'oeil, painting that aims to fool people into mistaking it for three-dimensional reality. Practiced by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, mastered by the Dutch and named by the French, this "trick of the eye" is still very much with us and is turning up in some unusual new places...
Still, because I've been living with my girlfriend Cassandra for some time, everyone was on my case about getting married. When I was interviewing the Wu-Tang Clan, even Inspectah Deck and Cappadonna, who were emptying out a Dutch Masters cigar and refilling it with marijuana, starting laying into me. "You got to marry her," Cappadonna told me. "You got to step up and be a man. Take some responsibility." Deck nodded in agreement. I never needed a puff of a Dutch Master quite so much...
...Panhandle. A lot of folks wouldn't mind seeing them go. Many of the CAFOs are owned by people from the Netherlands, who came in droves for the cheap land, high milk prices and lack of regulation. One result is growing animosity in the region against the Dutch, which, if you didn't know about the cow poop, might strike you as an odd development. The industrialization of dairies, a national phenomenon, mirrors changes in the poultry and pig industries. In the Panhandle, the problem is pig poop, with exactly the same results, except there they...
...Arsenal in a deal worth a reported $5.5 million. The week before, Bolton Wanderers, another Premier League side, took Cerezo Osaka's Akinori Nishizawa, 25, on a 10-month loan. Across the North Sea, Urawa Reds' midfielder Shinji Ono, 21, signed a reported $4 million deal with first division Dutch side Feyenoord. In Italy, A.C. Parma paid league champion A.S. Roma a cool $26 million for the services of Hidetoshi Nakata; the 24-year-old midfielder, now firmly established in Italian football, previously played for Perugia. Although sorry to see their favorites go, Japanese fans are proud of what...
...command dithered over calling air strikes, and when a limited air strike occurred two days after the initial attack, the Serbs responded by threatening to kill 30 Dutch troops they'd captured. That was the end of the air strikes, and the U.N. now found itself cooperating with General Mladic by sending in buses to remove women and children from the area - the Serbs had begun assembling Muslim men aged 12 to 77 for interrogation, and the mass executions began the next day - the same day as the peacekeepers handed over some 5,000 Muslims who'd been sheltering...