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...ready to buy art. And Stanley, 57, indulges them with brightly hued paintings that lean toward the abstract. (Think circles, squares and geometric patterns, reminiscent of an electric Madras plaid.) He does figurative work as well, namely the individual portraits he creates of his bandmates - in full Kabuki regalia - against a backdrop of sherbety colors. Jim Waitts, of Montville, N.J., is a three-decade-long Kiss fan who started collecting Stanley's work in 2007 and now owns more than a dozen paintings. "It strikes a chord in me," he says of the art. "It's the use of colors...
...Christ and comes close to Gus Van Sant's shot-by-shot remake of the Hitchcock Psycho. He uses Gibbons' panels as virtual storyboards for his scenes, and quotes Moore's ripe dialogue verbatim. (From Rorschach's journal: "Beneath me, this awful city. It screams like an abattoir full of retarded children.... The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences...
...wave of terrorism attacks that have scarred Pakistan over the past two years, the perpetrators have normally used improvised explosive devices, bomb-laden vehicles and individual suicide bombers. A full-frontal assault is new. The resemblance it bears to the Mumbai attacks, with young men carrying backpacks and openly brandishing their weapons, suggests to some analysts the possible involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group based near Lahore. (See pictures of Mumbai picking up the pieces...
While Hall and other experts say the government may not find it politically expedient to allow protests, the U.N. is not so sure. Its peacekeeping force in Sudan, which was intended to have more than 30,000 troops at full strength, now has only 12,000. It is lacking essential equipment, including helicopters, and considers itself vulnerable. On Monday, the U.S. embassy in Nairobi issued a travel warning that spoke of the arrest warrant as all but a sure thing. It said Europeans and Americans could be the target of "violent protests" if the warrant is delivered...
...gives Damascus strategic depth. Moreover, some Israeli and U.S. analysts say, the state of war with Israel has helped justify the repressive security state that keeps Assad in power. But the Obama people seem to believe they can bring Syria in from the cold, possibly in exchange for a full package of aid and first-class membership in the country club of international diplomacy. And if that could be achieved, of course, it would deprive Iran of one of its most important allies in its confrontation with the West...