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Beckmann's work doesn't fit easily into the approved history of modern art, in which the main lines move resolutely toward abstraction and for the most part pass through Paris and New York. There's not much room in that story for a German who all his life remained faithful to representational painting. All the same, he wasn't given to the atmospheres of Edward Hopper, dark and lovely as they are, much less the easy-to-read bloviations of Thomas Hart Benton. Beckmann's tangled allegories, his triptychs of bluntly contoured amputees and caged women, have...
...general protest is a classic Chinese political tactic. The 1989 protests that led to the Tiananmen massacre began with a memorial gathering for Hu Yaobang, the disgraced Chinese Communist Party General Secretary. Last week's huge march in Hong Kong against new antisubversion laws (known as Article 23) fit the pattern--with crowds estimated at 500,000, it was the largest pro-democracy protest in China since 1989--as does a rally planned for this week at the city's Legislative Council offices. "It's not just about Article 23," notes Allen Lee, a Hong Kong delegate to China...
...Swiss firm in 1999, only to be thwarted by the E.U.'s antitrust regulators in Brussels. Alcan ceo Travis Engen says that in order to consummate the deal, he's now willing to give up some of the aluminum-rolling operations that were the problem last time around. "The fit is really, really good," he says. Pechiney is holding out for now, and there's pressure on Alcan to raise its price. The deal may not happen at all. Peterson at Thomson Financial says hostile takeover bids have a very low success rate: only one in five gets done...
...represents a highly elevated rate in comparison with expected cancer rates in the general population. "I have 300 cancers staring me in the face and an oil production facility underneath the school," Brockovich told The Economist. "It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the two fit together...
...check out the Niger story broke cover and revealed that he had thoroughly debunked the allegation many months before President Bush repeated it. Ambassador Joseph Wilson emphasized that he had reported back through traditional channels, and asked whether his report had been ignored because it didn't fit with the administration's preconceptions about Iraq...