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It is hard to imagine more ill-fated births than those of Kerstin, Stefan and Felix Fritzl. In 1984, their father, Josef, the authoritarian patriarch of an already sprawling Austrian family, locked his teenage daughter Elisabeth into a converted nuclear shelter underneath his house in the town of Amstetten so...
But even these happy consequences would fail to justify the aggregate 6.5 billion hours spent preparing taxes in the United States every year, a clear symptom of excessive red tape. Every citizen should have an option of filing income taxes on a simple form. Sen. Fred Thompson’s...
Museums around the world have long had to contend with the issue of looted art. The British and French carted home priceless works from their conquests, and many museums have bought pieces stolen from archeological digs. But Nazi art plunder is an especially emotive issue because so many of the...
A clutch of key Futurist artworks further testifies to that movement's rapturous celebration of the machine age. Typical in its depiction of repetitive, colliding shapes is Giacomo Balla's 1913 monochrome watercolor Automobile + speed + light. Futurism's glorification of man-made power was not politically innocent; it fed directly...
Despite Musharraf's efforts to silence them, activists like Ahsan aren't going away. And in the long run, Ahsan's pro-democracy movement may threaten Musharraf's grip on power as much as the jihadist insurgency that has made parts of the country ungovernable. The lawyers' demonstrations exposed Musharraf...