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...earlier version of the Mar. 30 arts article "Artifacts Take Their Rightful Place as Art" incorrectly stated that the new wing in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston was designed by Renzo Piano. In fact, it was designed by Norman Foster...
...This year there are seven people including myself. Considering the fact that Harvard has 6000 undergrads, that’s pretty low,” Min says. “[But] I think Harvard’s getting there. This is just the beginning of art promotion...
...gamine classmate Lydia. Krimo joins the school production of Marivaux’s “Games of Love and Chance” to play the counterpart of Lydia’s character. However, Krimo fails to go beyond merely murmuring the lines, since, as a matter of fact, he has never read a single book in his life not to mention 18th-century classical theatre. Kechiche’s camera observes the unfolding of the story with a heavy hue of endearment...
...Baghlan. The warlord has kept close ties with Pakistan spy agency the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) ever since he was the main recipient of the CIA and Saudi aid that was channeled by the ISI to anti-Soviet Afghan rebels in the 1980s. And despite the fact that since 2002, the U.S. has considered Hekmatyar a terrorist, the Hezb-i-Islami chief operates more or less openly inside Pakistan. He maintains houses for his family in Peshawar and Islamabad, and recruits his fighters from Afghan refugee camps near Peshawar, all under the watchful...
...Pointing to a possible motivation behind the attacks was the fact that one of the bombers struck just beneath the headquarters of the FSB, Russia's secret police. Known as the KGB before the fall of the Soviet Union, the agency's harsh security tactics in the isolated Caucasus Mountains have incensed the local separatists who have been fighting for years to turn parts of the country into an Islamic caliphate governed by strict Shari'a law. (See pictures of the suicide bombings in Moscow...