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...Omaha request occurred amid a fervent international debate about the ethics of art repatriation. At the forefront of this debate is the dispute between the British Museum and the Greek government over the Athenian friezes from the Parthenon now exhibited in England...
...book's hero is Don Rigoberto, a well-to-do widower in Lima who has recently married Dona Lucrecia: "In his youth he had been a fervent militant in Catholic Action and dreamed of changing the world." The grownup Rigoberto has set his sights on a different goal: the pursuit of moments of transcendent personal pleasure. These he seeks in his nightly sessions in the bathroom, where, according to a strict schedule ("The Wednesday Ear Ritual"), he cleans and maintains a different portion of his anatomy; then he gallops toward the marriage bed for inventive trysts with the compliant Lucrecia...
...what could be the beginning of a long-overdue reckoning with the crimes of ex-Communists, two Polish secret-police generals were arrested in Warsaw last week and charged with "directing" the October 1984 murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a popular and fervent supporter of the then banned Solidarity labor union. Though four others have been convicted in the case, the two generals are the highest-ranking officials implicated in the killing...
...lengthy extract in the Harvard Business Review prompted a fusillade from fervent free-traders. New Republic columnist (and TIME contributor) Michael Kinsley broadly hinted that Choate, despite his denials, was engaging in "McCarthyism" with "his easy accusations of disloyalty, his imagery of infection of the body politic, his woozy mixture of falsehoods, half-truths and exaggerations." Hobart Rowen, a Washington Post columnist, called Choate's theories "pure poppycock...
There is excitement in Australia for international sports, including minor sports such as cycling and squash--a fervent nationalistic support for Australian athletes abroad. There is tremendous pride when an Australian is successful in an international arena, such as Wayne Grady's win in this summer's U.S. Open...