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...possibly step up efforts to intercept North Korean shipments of contraband. But China, the only country with genuine influence over Kim, remains opposed to disruptions in North Korea's aid and legal trade?and with a seat on the U.N. Security Council, it can block any U.S. attempt to gain international backing for economic sanctions. Beijing fears that if North Korea plunges into political and economic chaos, a flood of refugees might stream across the border into China...
...been reason to celebrate. "Burri's artworks represent Umbria in its deepest and most intimate nature," says Maria Rita Lorenzetti, president of the Umbria region. However, Burri's wife did not share her husband's affection for Città di Castello. After the artist's death, she tried to gain control of all of Burri's works. But in 1998, Italian courts ruled in favor of Albizzini as the guardian of Burri's art. Right now, the only record of the missing work is a photo-catalogue. In addition to the art, the collection contained intimate pieces Burri gave...
...streets, challenging Square pedestrians to join the crusade against alleged animal cruelty. Pictures showing primates strapped to a bevy of machinery and bleeding from the head adorned protestors’ signs, which read, “You pay for this” and “Her pain, their gain...
Perhaps taking a page from the process of integration in Europe, which has begun to question national boundaries and is attempting to articulate the ways in which cross-national exchanges can take place, the scholars at the Center for European Studies are open-minded individuals who gain excitement from sharing each other’s research, even when it concerns such disparate fields as literary culture and economic history, and areas from Scandinavia to the Balkans. For students, the Center is a vibrant space where with casual ease we can come in contact with faculty members. At events such...
Mahan is less optimistic. Until the University is convinced it has something to gain from improving the Springfest experience for undergraduates, he says, baby steps will take us nowhere...