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Legal theatrics veered toward tragedy in another Paris courtroom last week, as an appellate tribunal freed convicted war criminal Maurice Papon from jail. The ruling - based on a new law allowing aged or ill inmates to be released if imprisonment is judged a threat to their lives - sparked widespread shock and protests. Papon was found guilty in 1998 of complicity in crimes against humanity for his role in the deportation of 1,690 Jews to Nazi death camps during the German occupation of France. Despite his well-known activities in the collaborationist Vichy regime, Papon escaped punishment after...
Other scholars are not persuaded. Relying on tomb paintings to determine the nature of relationships, for example, is naive, they say. "Tomb paintings were always happy," says Rita Freed, of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. "They were idealized depictions...
Even if inspectors were somehow freed from Iraqi constraints, hunting weapons is painstaking work. The U.N. says that if allowed to return, its inspection team would need a year to document the full range of Saddam's arsenal. That's too long for Administration hard-liners, who fear that Iraq could use U.N. monitors as shields against a military strike, as Serb forces did during the Balkan wars. There's also the problem of what happens once the inspectors finish their work. There's every reason to believe that, if left in power, Saddam would become more determined to obtain...
...gave structure to their paintings by juxtaposing colors. Artists were not content merely to mimic perception. Theorists of color began looking at both how we see and what effects color has on our feelings. And with the paintings of the Postimpressionists, in particular Van Gogh, color began to be freed from nature. Van Gogh exaggerated and distorted color to communicate his vision of the world. For example, in his Sunny Lawn in a Public Park (Arles) (1888) Van Gogh creates a secret garden by forgoing the use of color to suggest realistic depth. His subjective use of color was taken...
Other matters loom larger. To an outsider who comes over to her place on a sunny day and watches her flip channels, Genelle seems listless, even depressed. She cancels plans often, saying she is tired or busy. Genelle explains that her new faith has freed her of earthly concerns that used to preoccupy her. "There's a million changes in me," she says. "I used to be this fun person, laughing, going out. Now I spend most of my time talking about the Bible, giving the glory to God. Before, I worried so much--about money, about looking good...